I have a drive that contains a list of clients, each client contains a folder that is used to store specific tasks for each month within another folder for each month.

The directory looks something like this:

I:\Clients\Client Name\PM Tasks\Month

I am attempting to write a script that will generate each month 01-12 within the bottom folder for each client so that I don't have to each client, which is about 200, and create 12 new folders in each folder.

I have seen this code

$subfolders = "Subfolder1", "Subfolder2", "Subfolder3" # Add or modify subfolders as needed

foreach ($subfolder in $subfolders) {
    $fullPath = Join-Path $networkPath $subfolder
    if (!(Test-Path -Path $fullPath)) {
        New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $fullPath
        Write-Host "Created directory: $fullPath"
    } else {
        Write-Host "Directory already exists: $fullPath"
    }
}

But I am not sure how I would get each client name and use it as the network path. Would I use Get-ChildItem store it as a variable and then just add it to the network path? The Subfolder will always be the same Client\PM Tasks

Thanks in advance

Update:

I have been able to create a new test folder within the network drive using the following code:

$networkPath = "I:\Clients\"
$folders = Get-ChildItem  -Path $networkPath | Select Name
foreach ($folder in $folders){
    Write-Output "Folder Name: " $folder
    $newPath = $networkPath + $folder.Name + "\PM Tasks\Test"

    if(!(Test-Path -Path $newPath)){
        New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $newPath
        Write-Host "Created Directory: $newPath"
    } else {
        Write-Host "Directory already exists: $newPath"\
    }
}

Now I just need to figure out how to create the 12 months in each directory

I have a drive that contains a list of clients, each client contains a folder that is used to store specific tasks for each month within another folder for each month.

The directory looks something like this:

I:\Clients\Client Name\PM Tasks\Month

I am attempting to write a script that will generate each month 01-12 within the bottom folder for each client so that I don't have to each client, which is about 200, and create 12 new folders in each folder.

I have seen this code

$subfolders = "Subfolder1", "Subfolder2", "Subfolder3" # Add or modify subfolders as needed

foreach ($subfolder in $subfolders) {
    $fullPath = Join-Path $networkPath $subfolder
    if (!(Test-Path -Path $fullPath)) {
        New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $fullPath
        Write-Host "Created directory: $fullPath"
    } else {
        Write-Host "Directory already exists: $fullPath"
    }
}

But I am not sure how I would get each client name and use it as the network path. Would I use Get-ChildItem store it as a variable and then just add it to the network path? The Subfolder will always be the same Client\PM Tasks

Thanks in advance

Update:

I have been able to create a new test folder within the network drive using the following code:

$networkPath = "I:\Clients\"
$folders = Get-ChildItem  -Path $networkPath | Select Name
foreach ($folder in $folders){
    Write-Output "Folder Name: " $folder
    $newPath = $networkPath + $folder.Name + "\PM Tasks\Test"

    if(!(Test-Path -Path $newPath)){
        New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $newPath
        Write-Host "Created Directory: $newPath"
    } else {
        Write-Host "Directory already exists: $newPath"\
    }
}

Now I just need to figure out how to create the 12 months in each directory

• powershell

2 Answers 2

• Loop over all client directories, assumed to be subdirectories of $networkPath

• In each client directory, create a PM Tasks subfolder.

• In each such subfolder, use .., the range operator, to enumerate the numbers 1 through 12, and create a subfolder for each 2-digit zero-padded number (the padding is created via -f, the format operator).

$networkPath = 'I:\Clients\'
Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath $networkPath -Directory |
  ForEach-Object {
    $tasksDir = New-Item -Type Directory -Force -Path $_.FullName -Name 'PM Tasks'
    1..12 | 
      ForEach-Object {
        $null = New-Item -Type Directory -Force -Path $tasksDir.FullName -Name ('{0:D2}' -f $_)
      }
  } 

Note that the use of -Force with New-Item -Type Directory makes the operation idempotent; that is, if the target directory already exists, no action is taken, and a [System.IO.DirectoryInfo] instance describing the preexisting directory is returned.

If you want to create the folders on various networkdrives you can store the routes on a txt and loop through them. I dont know if you want the months by names or numbers so you can change it in the array.

$routnetPath = Get-Content "C:\Scripts\NETWPATH.txt"
foreach ($networkPath in $routnetPath){

$months = @("January","February","March",...)

foreach ($month in $months) {
    $newfolderroute = Join-Path -Path $networkPath -ChildPath $month
    if (-not (Test-Path -Path $newfolderroute)) {
        New-Item -Path $newfolderroute -ItemType Directory
        Write-Host "Folder $month was created in $networkPath"
    } else {
        Write-Host "The folder $month already exists"
    }
}
}