Running into a problem that I'm not sure how to solve, and haven't been able 
to find anything in the documentation to help.  I suspect it's a issue with 
the path but not sure how to get the path of a module from within the module 
so I can find a dot source a file in the same directory.

I have a module which provides a trivial interface for lookup email lists.  
I want to keep the actual email addresses in a seperate .ps1 file from the 
code so that I can easily deploy this script to development and production 
and just swap out the emails.ps1 file

So there are two files,  Emails.ps1 and EmailList.psm1.

Here's EmailList.psm1:

# Emails.ps1 contains a bunch of variables with email lists.
.. Emails.ps1


$emails_TO_lists = @{
    'JOB'=$JOB_LIST;
};

Function Get-EmailTo($key)
{
<#
..SYNOPSIS
return the TO emails for a key

..EXAMPLE
Get-EmailTo "JOB"
#>
    return $emails_TO_lists[$key]
}


The error I get from importing at the command line:

mwarren@V-WS-IS-51:C:\dev\trading\SharedScripts$  import-module 
..\Shared\Email\EmailList.psm1 -Force
The term 'Emails.ps1' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, 
script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a 
path was included, verify that the path is correct and tr
y again.
At C:\dev\trading\SharedScripts\Shared\Email\EmailList.psm1:8 char:2
+ . <<<<  Emails.ps1
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (Emails.ps1:String) [], 
CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

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IENvbnRhaW5zIHRoZSBkaXJlY3RvcnkgZnJvbSB3aGljaCB0aGUgc2NyaXB0IG1vZHVsZSBpcyBi
ZWluZyBleGVjdXRlZC4NCiAgICAgIFRoaXMgdmFyaWFibGUgYWxsb3dzIHNjcmlwdHMgdG8gdXNl
IHRoZSBtb2R1bGUgcGF0aCB0byBhY2Nlc3Mgb3RoZXINCiAgICAgIHJlc291cmNlcy4NCg0KLS0g
DQpSb2JlcnQNCmh0dHA6Ly9yb2JlcnRyb2JlbG8uc3BhY2VzLmxpdmUuY29tLw==

That helped.

I just changed the dot source to:

.. $PSScriptRoot\Emails.ps1



"Robert Robelo" wrote:

> From about_Automatic_Variables
> 
>    $PSScriptRoot
>       Contains the directory from which the script module is being
> executed.
>       This variable allows scripts to use the module path to access other
>       resources.
> 
> --
> Robert
> http://robertrobelo.spaces.live.com/
>