How To Use Foreach In Powershell. Easy Powershell Beginner Tutorial

The Powershell lesson covers how to use a ForEach loop.

In this tutorial I have used the Get-ChildItem cmd let to get a list of files within a folder and copy them one at a time to the destination folder. After this I show you how to filter out your results to get just text files and copy those. Ideally when collecting your result set its far better to have this as small as possible so there is less work needed to within the loop. It makes for better, more efficient Powershell Code

00:16 What is a For Each Loop
00:50 Foreach loop script example
01:40 How For Each Loops work
02:14 Executing a For each loop
02:40 Filter contents of a For each loop
03:35 Expanding your for each script
05:00 Powershell for each syntax

Unlike a lot of lessons this will cover the following:

1. How to assign values to your variables
2. The structure of For Each loop
3. How Foreach loops are covered in multiple computer languages
4. How to give different instructions per line of code
5. How it can be used in Automation
6. Challenges you to find ways to use Powershell Foreach loops in the workplace for automation

For each loops can be very difficult to get your head round at first so this breaks it down in to very simple terms to help you understand how they work, what they are used for and what they aren't.

If you have any questions then please let me know and I will do my best to answer any questions that you may have.