PowerShell Script SCP command

Question

I have following script,

$servers = "server1","server2"
ForEach($Server In $servers){
    scp.exe -r 'username@'+$Server+':/home/copylogs/logs' .\logs_prod'
}

but server variable is not working as aspected, any idea?

thanks!

Answer 1

In order to pass an expression as an argument - a string concatenation operation with + in your case - you must include it in (...)

scp.exe -r ('username@'+$Server+':/home/copylogs/logs') .\logs_prod

Alternatively, you could use an expandable string (string interpolation), "...":

scp.exe -r "username@${Server}:/home/copylogs/logs" .\logs_prod

^{Note the need to enclose the variable name, Server in {...} in this case, so that the : that follows isn't interpreted as part of the variable name - see this answer.}