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Asked: 2019-02-08 20:02:15 +0800 CST

PowerShell to create folders with a specific format

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I need to create folders called:

Week1-Sat
Week1-Sun
Week2-Sat
...
WeekX-Sat
WeekX-Sun

creating them manually would take too long.

I need to be able to quickly create empty directories and allow the permissions to be inherited from the parent folder.
(These folders get created and deleted often)

powershell

1 Answers

  1. You just need two nested loops:

    ## Q:\Test\2019\02\08\SF_952895.ps1
$AbbreviatedDayNames = [System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo]::CurrentInfo.AbbreviatedDayNames

for ($Week=1;$Week -lt 53;$Week++){
    0..6|ForEach-Object{
        $Folder = "Week{0}-{1}" -f $Week,$AbbreviatedDayNames[$_]
        New-Item $Folder -ItemType Directory
    }
}

    For inheritance/propagation see this Q&A on stackoverflow.com

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