Printing text files and move them afterwards

PowerShell Help
1

Hi Guys,

For an old legacy system we need to print some files from an 2012 server every 10seconds or something. When that is done, i need to move them to another folder.

I found and modified this script below, but when i run the script it does not print, but i move the files and then i get an notepad error that i cannot find the files to print.

Could someone help me please?

dir “C:\temp\Print*.txt” |
ForEach-Object {
$moved = $False
Start-Process -FilePath $.FullName -Verb Print
Do {
Try {
$ |
Move-Item -Destination “C:\temp\Printed” -ErrorAction Stop
$moved = $True
}
Catch {
$moved = $False
Start-Sleep 1
}
} While (!$moved)
}

2

When i put a start-sleep 5 between start-proces en Do { it works but i get an error message.

Sleep-start : The term ‘Sleep-start’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. C
heck the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:5 char:5

  • Sleep-start 5

  • ~~~~~~~~~~~
    • CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Sleep-start:String) , CommandNotFoundException
    • FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
3

There is no such cmdlet called ‘Sleep-start’, hence your error.
The snippet you posted shows the correct command.

Start-Sleep 1

So, I am not sure where this ‘Sleep-start’ is coming from.

You also don’t have a printer destination specified.

For example —

Function Start-PrintTestPage
{
[cmdletbinding()]

[Alias('sptp')]

Param
(
    [string]$Printer = "Brother MFC-J985DW Printer"
)

    Invoke-CimMethod -MethodName printtestpage `
    -InputObject (Get-CimInstance win32_printer -Filter "name LIKE '$printer'")

}