A. I had a large folder of virtual machines I had exported. Each folder was a separate machine, and I wanted to run a script to import each VM in the folder. The first step was to use PowerShell to create the list of folders. To do that, I needed to list all child items in a path then check if the item is of type directory, as shown below.
PS E:\Virtuals> bThe next step is to pass this output to another command. For example, below I just pass it to a command to list the fullname of the directory. You could use any function you need to.
Directory: E:\Virtuals
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
d---- 4/25/2011 6:27 AM hypervserv
d---- 4/24/2011 4:34 PM PXETest
d---- 4/25/2011 6:02 AM savdalappv01
d---- 4/24/2011 4:44 PM savdalcb01
d---- 4/24/2011 4:50 PM savdalclient2.savilltech.net
d---- 4/24/2011 4:56 PM savdalclient3.savilltech.net
d---- 4/24/2011 5:02 PM savdalclient4.savilltech.net
d---- 4/24/2011 5:08 PM savdalcm01
PS E:\Virtuals> Get-ChildItem e:\virtuals | Where-Object { $_.Attributes -band [System.IO.FileAttributes]::Directory } | ForEach-Object {Write-Host $_.FullName}
E:\virtuals\hypervserv
E:\virtuals\PXETest
E:\virtuals\savdalappv01
E:\virtuals\savdalcb01
E:\virtuals\savdalclient2.savilltech.net
E:\virtuals\savdalclient3.savilltech.net
E:\virtuals\savdalclient4.savilltech.net
E:\virtuals\savdalcm01
E:\virtuals\savdaldc11
E:\virtuals\savdaldpm01
E:\virtuals\savdalex10
E:\virtuals\savdalfs01
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