Find user by using a variable in powershell

Question

This line works.

get-aduser -f {name -like '*John*'} | format-Table name,SamAccountName

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The following doesn't work. Your help will be greatly appreciated, thank you very much in advance.

$name = Read-Host "Enter a First Name or Last Name"  
$uname = "'*" + $name + "*'"   
get-aduser -f {name -like $uname } | Format-Table name, SamAccountName

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Answer 1

Your extra single quotes are not needed and getting included in the search so you end up searching for '*John*' instead of *John*, so the name should not start and end with '

Just change to

$uname = "*$name*"

Answer 2

Remove the ' at the end and the start of line 2, like this:

$name = Read-Host "Enter a First Name or Last Name"  
$uname = "*" + $name + "*"   
get-aduser -f {name -like $uname } | Format-Table name, SamAccountName