PowerShell: Automating Administrative Tasks

Creating files, folders, and registry items with PowerShell

When you want to create a new file, folder, or registry key, you will need to leverage the new-item cmdlet. The syntax of this command is new-item, calling the –path argument to specify the location, calling the -name argument to provide a name for the item, and the -ItemType argument to designate whether you want a file or a directory (folder). When you are creating a file, it has an additional argument of –value, which allows you to prepopulate data into the file after creation. When you are creating a new registry key in PowerShell, you can omit the –ItemType argument as it is not needed for registry key creation. PowerShell assumes that when you are interacting with the registry using ...