Error Finding Drive

[dprice]

I installed PoShLucecene via Install-Module -Name PoShLucene and tried searching for a variety of file extensions on my C: and D: drives. Each time I get a similiar error at the command line as the UI shows no errors occurred:

D:\dnx\dnx-util [master ↓ +9 ~10 -1 !]> Invoke-PoshLucene
Get-ChildItem : Cannot find path 'D:\dnx\dnx-util\-rec -File' because it does not exist.
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-ChildItem "-rec -File"
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (D:\dnx\dnx-util\-rec -File:String) [Get-ChildItem], ItemNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PathNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetChildItemCommand

Any ideas on what's happening?

Thanks,
Derek

[dfinke]

Can you post a screen shot of the UI of what you typed in?

[dprice]

Here's my command line:

D:\dnx\dnx-util [master ↓ +9 ~10 -1 !]> Invoke-PoshLucene
Get-ChildItem : Cannot find path 'D:\dnx\dnx-util\-rec -File' because it does not exist.
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-ChildItem "-rec -File"
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (D:\dnx\dnx-util\-rec -File:String) [Get-ChildItem], ItemNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PathNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetChildItemCommand

Get-ChildItem : Cannot find drive. A drive with the name '-rec d' does not exist.
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-ChildItem "-rec d:\dnx-util\*.ps1 -File"
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (-rec d:String) [Get-ChildItem], DriveNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : DriveNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetChildItemCommand

And my screenshot:

[dfinke]

Bummer, weird. I tried some things, but have no clue yet.

Is your D: drive a mounted network drive?

What happens if you type this in the PS console?

ls -rec d:\dnx-util\*.ps1 -File | % fullname

That's where the code is failing in the psm1.

[dprice]

I think I figured out what's going on here. I had an alias set for ls for this function Get-ChildItem-Color. I'm assuming that you were using ls and not Get-ChildItem in your module, which is why it failed on my system.

I was able to run it successfully this morning but did notice an error at the prompt after doing what seemed a successful search:

C:\Users\derek.price> Invoke-PoshLucene
Index operation failed; the array index evaluated to null.
At C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\PoShLucene\1.0\PoShLucene.psm1:257 char:13
+             $lastResult = $script:totalDocs[$script:lastSelectedResul ...
+             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [], RuntimeException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NullArrayIndex

Honestly - I love what you've done here! I think the UX could be slightly improved on for the Target field. It would be nice if you could easily select a path rather than type it in. Some folders on Windows can be very painful to type and get correct. Might be nice to be able to provide the Target when calling Invoke-PoshLucene since the folder navigation is easy with tabbing.

Thanks again for the fast help!
--Derek