Powershell: null file always generated (output of Compare-Object)

Question

The most popular answer for this question involves the following Windows powershell code (edited to fix a bug):

$file1 = Get-Content C:\\temp\\file1.txt  
$f         


        

Answer 1

Perhaps instead of

$LeftSide = ($Diff | Where-Object {$_.SideIndicator -eq '<='}).InputObject  

PowerShell 2 might work better with:

$LeftSide = $Diff | Where-Object {$_.SideIndicator -eq '<='} | 
            Foreach-object { $_.InputObject }