Does Powershell have a cache that needs to be cleared?

Question

This morning, I copied a directory from my local, networked drive to temp folder for testing. This error appeared.

Get-Content : Cannot find path 'C:\users\xxxxx\desktop\cgc\Automatic_Post-Call_Survey_-_BC,_CC.txt' because it does no
t exist.
At C:\users\xxxxx\desktop\cgc\testcountexcl1.ps1:55 char:12
+ Get-Content <<<<  $txtfile | Get-WordCount -Exclude (Get-Content c:\temp\exclude.txt) | select -First 15
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (C:\users\xxxxx...ey_-_BC,_CC.txt:String) [Get-Content], ItemNotFoundEx
   ception
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PathNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetContentCommand

This would be expected with the move...PS can't find the path referenced...but I made the following change prior to running the script (old commented out above the new):

$input = Get-Content c:\temp\wordCount.txt
<# $inpath = "C:\users\xxxxx\desktop\cgc\tx"    #>
$inpath = "C:\temp\tx"  
$srcfiles = Get-ChildItem $inpath -filter "*.txt"    
$notPermittedWords = Get-Content c:\temp\exclude.txt 

My first inkling is that there's some kind of cache holding my $inpath variable from my last run...but have not been able to find out if that's expected PowerShell behavior. Am I misinterpreting the error or the solution? How do I flush the cache or whatever varables may be stored in memory?

Answer 1

I do not like the idea of having to close and re-open every time I need to clear the cache.

This works in PowerShell

Remove-Variable * -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue; Remove-Module *; $error.Clear(); Clear-Host