Vista - Reporting on registry values

I am working on a project where I have to grab registry settings from
a bunch of clients and run a report based on those settings. So far,
I've gotten PowerShell to dump the settings from all of my clients to
a text file (one for each client). The files are formatted as:

Key name Key Value
Key name Key Value
.....

What I want to do is look through all the files for a key name of
ProductVersion, for example, and tell me the total number of files
that contain that value. And then tell me of that total, what number
have version 8.0, what number have 8.1, etc. And I don't want to have
to tell the script what values to look for. In other words, I don't
know all of the different versions that may exist out there, I'd like
the script to tell me that.

Is there an easy way to do this?

Thanks,

Tim

Try this:


dir *.txt | foreach { switch -regex -file $_ {'ProductVersion\s+(\d+\.\d+)'
{$matches[1]; $total+=1}} } | group -noElement

"`nTotal found: $total"



Here a sample output. The Name column is the key (ProductVersion) value:

Count Name
----- ----
1 2.0
3 8.0
3 8.1
1 3.1
3 7.6
1 8.6


Total found: 12


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Shay Levi
$cript Fanatic
http://scriptolog.blogspot.com

Wow! That's fantastic. Thanks Shay.

On May 23, 8:38*pm, Shay Levi <n...@xxxxxx> wrote: