Fun PowerShell Command: Find all folders containing a file type
March 14, 2009
posted by James Kehr
Me, write a short blog? Never! I wanted to mass import all the drivers from the UBCD4win software to a custom WIM file, but the network drivers are scattered everywhere in different subfolders. The solution?
$drv = get-childitem D:\UBCD4Win\drivers -recurse -filter "*.inf" | %{$_.DirectoryName} | Get-Unique
The first part of the command gets all the locations where an INF file lives. Then you use a for-eachobject (%) to select the directory name of where those files are. Get-unique automatically pulls our duplicate directories in case a directory has more than one INF file.
In the end I do the entire import in two lines of blissfully easy PowerShell code.
- $drv = get-childitem D:\UBCD4Win\drivers -recurse -filter "*.inf" | %{$_.DirectoryName} | Get-Unique
- foreach ($d in $drv){invoke-expression "D:`\WAIK`\Tools`\PETools`\peimg`.exe `/inf=$d\*`.inf D:`\PE`\winpe_x86`\mount`\Windows"}
Please note that I have an uncommon Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) location, so please adjust accordingly and add quotes (`" inside inside the invoke-express) if there is a space in the path.
