using powershell to open multiple txt files in directory

Question

i am trying to open 20+ .txt files in a directory. i navigate the shell into the directory and tried to issue the following commands but they fail:

1. ./*.txt //however t6.txt is a file in the directory and the command ./t6.txt works to open the single file

2. notepad.exe Get-ChildItem .\*.txt since notepad.exe .\t6.txt works i tried this

3. notepad.exe | Get-ChildItem *.txt opens an untitled blank notepad instance?!

i have found some really great answers that provide solutions including this one!

i think i have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the shell works underneath the hood. i am a lot surprised that i couldn't find this question elsewhere. i think that explanations to how these statement are dumb/stupid/bad may provide the context necessary for me to interpret the documentation properly and un-!#@$ my thinking. thanks for the help in advance

Answer 1

You will want a script like this:

get-childitem *.txt |foreach-object {
    notepad $_.name
}

This basically pipes the result object from a query for all txt files into the foreach-object, which then iterates through the resultset name by name and executes a command.