powershell script to read folders in directory and output to file and modify to create AD group

Question

I am looking to create a long script that does many things.

First the script will get a list of folders in a directory and output to a file I have this code below

Get-ChildItem -Path "filepath" | Select-Object Name | Out-File c:\dir.txt

The output of the file would look like

Name
-
1234556 Description 1
1244556 Description 2
1234456 Description 3

I want to delete the first two lines then strip all the characters in the list except for the first 7 numbers and add the same text to the end of each directory name like this:

1234556Descript
1244556Descript
1234456Descript

Then after that is done I want to create an AD group from this list of names.

Richard · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-05 08:12:32Z

1

You can do this without using a text file to store the file names in.

$Endding = "EnddingToGroup"
$path = "C:\FolderPath\"

Get-ChildItem -Path $path `
    | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Name `
    | %{ "$(($_).SubString(0,7))$Endding" } `
    | %{ New-ADGroup -Name $_ -GroupCategory Security -GroupScope Global -DisplayName $_ }

This will get a list of items in a folder, then takes the first 7 characters of the name of each item and add your '$endding' onto the end. Then it will make AD global security groups with the names.

If you want to see what group will be made before running it, just run the following part of the script without the New-ADGroup part:

$Endding = "EnddingToGroup"
$path = "C:\FolderPath\"

Get-ChildItem -Path $path | Select -ExpandProperty Name | %{ "$(($_).SubString(0,7))$Endding" }

edited Sep 5, 2015 at 8:12

answered Sep 4, 2015 at 15:09

Richard

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dac086 Over a year ago

your code was confusing at first because the $path name had .txt in it.

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