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Run a program in a ForEach loop

I'm trying to get this simple PowerShell script working, but I think something is fundamentally wrong. ;-)

ls | ForEach { "C:\Working\tools\custom-tool.exe" $_ }

I basically want to get files in a directory, and pass them one by one as arguments to the custom tool.

Solution 
  • ls | %{C:\Working\tools\custom-tool.exe $_}

    As each object comes down the pipeline the tool will be run against it. Putting quotes around the command string causes it to be... a string! The local variable "$_" it then likely doesn't know what to do with so pukes with an error.