Powershell send file as attachment of a mail

Question

I need to check if a file exist into a path.

if yes, I need to send it as attachment of mail.

this my code now:

$file='STREAM_preg.txt'
$pathfile ='c:\Users\root\Desktop'
$dest ='C:\Users\root\Desktop\test'

cd $pathfile
if(Test-Path $file){
        $datestamp = get-date -uformat "%Y%m%d%H%M"
    Copy-Item $file $dest\$datestamp"_"$file
    $new_file = echo $datestamp"_"$file
    echo $new_file
      # Send-MailMessage -SmtpServer xxxxxxxxxx -To [email protected] -From [email protected] -Subject "test mail" -Body "file name is: $new_file"
}else{
        echo false
}

Solution

Send-Mailmessage accepts file paths to attach.

Send-MailMessage -SmtpServer xxxxxxxxxx -To [email protected] -From [email protected] -Subject "test mail" -Body "file name is: $new_file" -attachment $new_file

Comments

[ArchGriffin]

Just for completeness: -Attachments string[] The path and file names of files to be attached to the email message. Use this parameter or pipe the path/file names.