Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

Manipulating Files

In addition to providing information about the underlying files that they represent, CIM_DataFile objects can be used to perform a number of simple housekeeping tasks.

CIM_DataFile objects have methods to support most of the actions that you would expect to be supported at the filesystem level—namely, copying, moving, renaming, and deleting. In addition, there are methods to control a file’s compression status and to manipulate security on an NTFS filesystem. The following script fragments demonstrate the use of these methods (with the exception of the security-related methods, which are discussed in Chapter 5, “WMI Security”). Because some of these methods are really quite destructive, it is probably best not to use a file ...