Vista - WMI - How to process thru subdirectories for my script

Hi All,

Here is a script I'm working on and I was hoping someone could help point me
in the right direction. I want the following script to be able to process
through a directory and all subdirectories reporting on certain files. I can
report on a specific directory no problem. I have to use WMI for the
credentail option. Here is the test script i'm using.

## Declare variables
$passwordfile = "c:\scripts\password.txt"
$easeWorkstationsFile = "c:\scripts\ease-workstations.txt"

## Functions
function PingWorkstation
{
Param($hostIP)
$pingresult = Get-WmiObject win32_pingstatus -f "address='$hostIP'"
if($pingresult.statuscode -eq 0) {$true} else {$false}
}

## Create the username and password credential object
$username = "administrator"
$password = Get-Content $passwordfile | ConvertTo-SecureString
$credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PsCredential `
"administrator", $password

## Read in EASE workstation IPs
$workstationIPs = get-content $easeWorkstationsFile

## Process through the EASE workstation IPs
foreach ($ip in $workstationIPs)
{
if (PingWorkstation $ip)
{
"-------------------"
$ip
$files = get-wmiobject cim_Logicalfile -computer $ip `
-credential $credential -filter "Drive ='c:' `
AND Extension = 'exe' AND path = '\\dell\\'"
$files | select-object name, installdate, lastaccessed, lastmodified,
filesize
}
}

In doing some investigation it looks like i can use the filetype property to
determine if a folder or not and build a routine to start at the top most
directory and work my way down. If you have an easier way, please share =)

"Ripp" wrote:

On Sep 15, 8:26*am, Ripp <R...@xxxxxx> wrote:This might be a good place to use recursion. Make a function that
takes a folder name as an argument and gets the files, and as it
processes the files have it call itself on the file if that file is
also a folder.