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by spoony123 at 2012-10-22 08:11:05

Hi I am just trying a few things in Powershell at the moment and am just practising with a very basic script that

1.Checks for services with a particular name
2.Selects that object
3.Exports the Service Name and PC name to a CSV file.

The problem i have is that in the excel spreadsheet the following is returned

@{Name=Browser},PC1

The hostname picks ups but Why does the Service name get put in brackets and prefixed with "Name=" in the Excel Spreadshee
My code is below

$a = get-service | where-object {$.name -eq "browser"} | select-object name
$system = hostname

("$a,$system") | Out-file -append c:\temp\database.csv

This is probably something very simple to do with formatting or more likely bad code! Any pointers greatly recieved/
by DonJ at 2012-10-22 08:22:21
That’s because $a is a service object, not just the service’s name. A service consists of more than it’s name.

"$($a.name),$system"

Would do what you want.

A somewhat different approach:


$system = ‘hostname’,‘otherhost’,‘thirdhost’
foreach {
Get-Service -computername $-name "browser" | select Name,@{n=‘system’=e={$}}
} | Export-CSV database.csv
by spoony123 at 2012-10-22 08:42:07
Hi Don,

Thanks for the reply you additions worked just right - i would never have got that i don’t think. So thankyou. However the additional script provided had the below errors, can you advise.

Missing opening ‘(’ after keyword ‘foreach’.
At line:2 char:9

Invalid assignment expression. The left hand side of an assignment operator needs to be something that can be assigned to like a variable or a property.
At line:3 char:73

Missing closing ‘}’ in statement block.
At line:4 char:33
by DonJ at 2012-10-22 08:56:24
Check your typing. My example doesn’t have any parentheses; they’re { curly brackets. There was a typo, though - it should be a ; in front of the e:

$system = ‘hostname’,‘otherhost’,‘thirdhost’
foreach {
Get-Service -computername $ -name "browser" | select Name,@{n=‘system’;e={$_}}
} | Export-CSV database.csv
by spoony123 at 2012-10-23 09:12:07
Thanks guys - this one can now be marked as solved.