After many months of getting tired of typing in an entire directory path when using the “Read-Host” command to import a text file or CSV file I went looking for commands to present a popup box to let me browse for a file, then have that file’s path be presented to a variable. This example shows that $file will be the file path for the file specified in the Get-FileName function.
A big thank you goes to the blog over at Sapien.com for showing me this wonderfulness 🙂
http://www.sapien.com/forums/scriptinganswers/forum_posts.asp?TID=4115
Function Get-FileName($initialDirectory)
{
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.windows.forms") |
Out-Null
$OpenFileDialog = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog
$OpenFileDialog.initialDirectory = $initialDirectory
$OpenFileDialog.Title = "PowerShell Master Says...Select File:"
$OpenFileDialog.filter = "All files (*.*)| *.*"
$OpenFileDialog.ShowDialog() | Out-Null
$OpenFileDialog.filename
} #end function Get-FileName
# *** Entry Point to Script ***
$file = Get-FileName -initialDirectory "c:"
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