Windows Classroom Series – 06/Oct/2020

Files, Folders and the Registry

• Items: Support for *-Items cmdlet varies from Provider to Provider
  • Test for Existing Items: Test-Path
  • To Check for existense of folder or file

  $folderPath = 'c:\windows\system32'
  Test-Path $folderPath 
  # To check if it is folder and whether it exists or not
  Test-Path $folder -PathType 'Container'
  # To check if it is file and whether it exists or not
  $filePath = 'c:\test1.txt'
  Test-Path $filePath -PathType 'Leaf'
  

  • Create and deleting Items. The New-Item can create files, directory, registry keys, certificates and also environmental variable and to delete the items we have Remove-Item
  • Item-Properties: To deal with item properties we have two cmdlets
    • Get-ItemProperty
    • Set-ItemProperty
  • A File has following possible attributes
    • Name
    • Compressed
    • Archive
    • System
    • Hidden
    • Read-Only
  • Permissions: To deal with permissions we have two cmdlets Get-Acl & Set-Acl
• Sample Script to Create Files and Folders

Next Steps:

• Remoting and Remote Management