Packing up My Documents: A PowerShell Story
I am frequently asked by colleagues and customers for a dump of all of my SharePoint content (presentations, white papers, etc.) While I continue to add files like these to my hard drive in various different locations, it has started to take me a while to aggregate them all forward. It dawned on me that this need not be a half an hour exercise of locating documents.
Bing! PowerShell
Thanks to another colleagues blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/daiken/archive/2007/02/12/compress-files-with-windows-powershell-then-package-a-windows-vista-sidebar-gadget.aspx
I created a few functions and added them to my PowerShell module that loads with my profile. Now it’s as simple as:
Get-ChildItem -path c: -filter *sharepoint* -recurse | create-zip "c:\sharepoint.zip"
#Special Thanks to:
# http://blogs.msdn.com/daiken/archive/2007/02/12/compress-files-with-windows-powershell-then-package-a-windows-vista-sidebar-gadget.aspx
# Create a new zip file from pipeline
function Create-Zip()
{
param
(
[string]$zipFile
);
New-Zip -zipfileName $zipFile
$zip = Get-Zip -zipfileName $zipFile
#loop through files in pipeline
foreach($file in $input)
{
#add file to zip and sleep 1/2 second
$zip.CopyHere($file.FullName)
Start-sleep -milliseconds 500
}
}
#create a new zip file
function New-Zip
{
param([string]$zipfilename)
set-content $zipfilename ("PK" + [char]5 + [char]6 + ("$([char]0)" * 18))
(dir $zipfilename).IsReadOnly = $false
}
#get the zip file
function Get-Zip
{
param([string]$zipfilename)
if(test-path($zipfilename))
{
$shellApplication = new-object -com shell.application
$zipFullFilename = (get-childitem $zipfilename).FullName
$shellApplication.NameSpace($zipFullFilename)
}
}
