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jrizzie
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Apr 15, 2020
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remote invoke-command (icm) fails when used with Get-ChildItem (gci) and select-string (pattern)

Hello, my goal (simplified) is to find phone-numbers from a remote user.  I can successfully find matching strings on local machines with the second command, but it does not work when running remo...
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    jrizzie
    Apr 15, 2020

    jrizzie 

    SOLVED --
    just needed " | fc " before the end of the script-block. better write-up is on stack-overflow.

    icm -cn <ip-addr> -cr <username> {
    gci -path C:\Users\IEUser\Downloads | select-string -Pattern "\d{3}-\d{2}-\d{4}" -AllMatches | fc}

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jrizzie
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Apr 15, 2020

jrizzie 

SOLVED --
just needed " | fc " before the end of the script-block. better write-up is on stack-overflow.

icm -cn <ip-addr> -cr <username> {
gci -path C:\Users\IEUser\Downloads | select-string -Pattern "\d{3}-\d{2}-\d{4}" -AllMatches | fc}