Get LastWriteTime of a particular file - windows

Question

I'm using Windows 10 Enterprise 1709 and PowerShell ISE v5. I am trying to get the last write time to the file deployment.properties by checking to see if the testpath holds the file and if it does, write the LastWriteTime of that file. I'm not sure I'm doing this the correct way. Any help showing me how to make this work would be appreciated. I've tried several options but this is the only one that doesn't produce an error. However, the code runs, completes without error but doesn't produce and output. My code is listed below first and then the output I see on the PowerShell ISE screen.
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass
$env:COMPUTERNAME = HostName
$DeplPath = "AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\Deployment\deployment.properties"
$dateTime = foreach ($User in Get-ChildItem C:\Users -Directory) {
$folderFile = Join-Path $javauser.FullName $DeplPath
if (Test-Path $folderFile) {
$testResult = Get-ChildItem | select -Property fullName, LastWriteTime
} Else {
$testResult = "Not found - deployment.properties"
}
}
$dateTime
Below is the output I get which returns no information.
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass
$env:COMPUTERNAME = HostName
$DeplPath = "AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\Deployment\deployment.properties"
$dateTime = foreach ($User in Get-ChildItem C:\Users -Directory) {
$filelist = Join-Path $User.FullName $file
if (Test-Path $filelist) {
$testResult = Get-ChildItem $dateTime | select -Property fullName, LastWriteTime
} Else {
$testResult = "Not found - deployment.properties"
}
}
$dateTime
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32>
Newly modified code below
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass
$env:COMPUTERNAME = HostName
$DeplPath = "AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\Deployment\deployment.properties"
$dateTime = foreach ($User in Get-ChildItem C:\Users -Directory) {
$folderFile = Join-Path $User.FullName $DeplPath
if (Test-Path $folderFile) {
$testResult = Get-ChildItem | select -Property fullName, $DeplPath.LastWriteTime
} Else {
$testResult = "Not found - deployment.properties"
}
[PSCustomObject]#{
"Computer Name" = $env:COMPUTERNAME
"Java User True/False" = $TestResult
"Users" = $user.Name
"Last Write Time" = $testResult.LastWriteTime
}
}
$dateTime

Answer 1

Try this out. Your property select for the get-childitem were mislabeled.
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass
$env:COMPUTERNAME = HostName
$DeplPath = "AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\Deployment\deployment.properties"
$dateTime = foreach ($User in Get-ChildItem C:\Users -Directory) {
$folderFile = Join-Path $User.FullName $DeplPath
$test = Test-Path $folderFile
if ($test -eq $True) {
$testResult = Get-ChildItem $folderfile | select -Property Name, LastWriteTime
} Else {
$testResult = "Not found - deployment.properties"
}
[PSCustomObject]#{
"Computer Name" = $env:COMPUTERNAME
"Java User True/False" = $TestResult
"Users" = $user.Name
"Last Write Time" = $testResult.LastWriteTime
}
}
$dateTime