Powershell Printing weird values

Question

Every now and then, my powershell script prints below out of blue. I rechecked many times and I've no function or script to print this. Could someone please help me if this is a expected behaviour of powershell?

PSPath            : Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::\\SOMEDIR\
PSParentPath      : Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::\\SOMEDIR\
PSChildName       : SOMEFILENAME
PSProvider        : Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem
PSIsContainer     : True
Name              : SOMEFILENAME
Parent            : Archieve
Exists            : True
Root              : \\SOMEDIR
FullName          : \\SOMEDIR\
Extension         :
CreationTime      : 17/05/2013 4:05:15 PM
CreationTimeUtc   : 17/05/2013 6:05:15 AM
LastAccessTime    : 17/05/2013 4:05:15 PM
LastAccessTimeUtc : 17/05/2013 6:05:15 AM
LastWriteTime     : 17/05/2013 4:05:15 PM
LastWriteTimeUtc  : 17/05/2013 6:05:15 AM
Attributes        : Directory
BaseName          : SOMEFILENAME
Mode              : d----

Below is the suspected powershell snippet:

foreach ($file in Get-ChildItem $path*.* -Include *.csv){ 

        if (!(Test-Path $archieveFolder) )
        {
            #1. Create config archieve directory
            New-Item -Path $archieveFolder -Force -ItemType Directory
        }
}

No this is not expected. There must be something within your code that's prompting this to happen, it will be difficult to help you as I can't see your code, but try outputting debug messages at various points in your script to try to pin point the line that causing this prompt — Musaab Al-Okaidi
– Musaab Al-Okaidi, Commented May 17, 2013 at 7:16
When you try Get-Job is there anything returned? Also what's definition of prompt function? (Look at Get-Content function:\prompt) — stej
– stej, Commented May 17, 2013 at 7:46
Something like ` Get-Item .\somedir | FL *` can return this output. — CB.
– CB., Commented May 17, 2013 at 9:35
Yep this is the line, but on what scenario does it return this — Nil Pun
– Nil Pun, Commented May 18, 2013 at 0:36
@Myagdi Add the rest of the code... the suspect is innocent and we have no evidence to charge him — CB.
– CB., Commented May 20, 2013 at 12:28

Victor Zakharov · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-20 15:00:41Z

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New-Item outputs the item it creates. If you don't want it, cast to [Void] or pipe it to Out-Null.

New-Item -Path $archieveFolder -Force -ItemType Directory | Out-Null

edited May 20, 2013 at 15:00

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answered May 20, 2013 at 14:57

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Bill_Stewart Over a year ago

@Myagdi Great, glad to help. It's good to accept the answer if you consider your question answered.

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