Powershell - Append text to each line of output

Question

I think I'm missing something simple. I need to append text to each line of output from a Get-ChildItem instruction.

As a simplistic example, picture adding a reference number ('12345') to a folder listing on c:

The output I'm after would look something vaguely like:

c:\Program Files 12345
c:\program Files (x86) 12345
c:\temp 12345
c:\Users 12345
c:\Windows 12345
...etc

The real application has more to it, but the end result is that a Powershell script runs a bunch of these commands with some metadata appended to each line which then gets pulled into Excel for reporting.

I just can't figure how to add the string to each line...

Answer 1

To have the numbers trailing directly to the folder names you can:

gci C:\ -Directory | % { $_.FullName + " 12345"}

More complex with a calculated property

(gci c:\ -Directory | select @{n='WithText';e={$_.FullName + " 12345"}}).WithText