Powershell Script to Copy an Unknown number of Files in a Directory

Question

I need to be able to copy an unknown number of files in a folder to an FTP site.  I have the FTP components figured out and working, but am running into a problem when there is only 1 file for upload.  The folder is a queue that users manually
copy files to, so i do not have control of how many files may be pending.  And the file names are always different.
My script performs the following steps.
1. Get a list of files in the directory with the a attribute.  (this prevents subfolders from being processed)
2. Loop thru the list, copying each file.
Here is my problem.
no files. nothing happens. normal and expected
2 or more files. all files upload correctly.  EXPECTED
Filename returned from variable = "True".  File does not exist and upload fails.  ERROR
This is what the script looks like. (There are several Write-Output statements for debugging purposes.
$ftpUploadPath = "$ftpServer/claims/"
$localUploadPath = "$localDir\claims\"
$localSentPath = "$localUploadPath`Sent\"
$listFile = "$localDir\uplist.txt"
Write-Output "Uploading Claim files to $ftpUploadPath ..."
#1 get list of claim files to upload
$list = Get-ChildItem -Name $localUploadPath -Attributes a   
Write-Output $list
Write-Output " "
#2 loop thru list and upload files
if($list.Length -ne 0){
    #Write-Output "  Getting files from list"
    # download each file in the list
    foreach ($file in $list -cne "") {
        Write-Output $file
    } # end foreach file
} #end if($list.Length)
else {
    Write-Output "  No files for upload"
} #end else($list.Length)
Thanks in advance,
Greg

Answer 1

You are writing way too many lines for such a simple task. Try this:
Get-ChildItem -Name $localUploadPath -Attributes a |
ForEach-Object{
Write-Host $_ -fore green
$_
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