Array iteration in command to find child items - windows

Question

I created a text file containing the child items from the parent folder. I removed the header and called the file. I am able to iterate through the file, but I am unable to forest out the items in the new parent directory.
#create txt for array
Get-Item -Path HKLM:\test\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\* | Out-File C:\test\shell.txt
$files = "C:\test\shell.txt"
#removes header
get-content $files | select -Skip 7 | set-content "$files-temp"
move "$files-temp" $files -Force
#iterates array
Get-Content $files | ForEach-Object { Get-Item -Path HKLM:\test\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\$_\* }
I need to be able to iterate through the list and obtain the information inside the folders being iterated.
Current output example:
Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\TEST\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags
Name Property
---- --------
1
10
11
12
13
14
_____________________________________________________________________________
Solution
$filedir = "HKLM:\test\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags"
foreach($file in Get-ChildItem -Recurse $filedir){
echo $file >> "C:\test\shell.csv"
}

Answer 1

Actually, I don't like how powershell does the registry that much. Here's a script called "get-itemproperty2.ps1":
param([parameter(ValueFromPipeline)]$key)
process {
$valuenames = $key.getvaluenames()
if ($valuenames) {
$valuenames | foreach {
$value = $_
[pscustomobject] #{
Path = $key -replace 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER',
'HKCU:' -replace 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE','HKLM:'
Name = $Value
Value = $Key.GetValue($Value)
Type = $Key.GetValueKind($Value)
}
}
} else {
[pscustomobject] #{
Path = $key -replace 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER',
'HKCU:' -replace 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE','HKLM:'
Name = ''
Value = ''
Type = ''
}
}
}
With that in place, you can do:
get-item HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\currentversion\run | get-itemproperty2
Path Name Value Type
---- ---- ----- ----
HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\currentversion\run SecurityHealth C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MSASCuiL.exe ExpandString
HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\currentversion\run DagentUI C:\Program Files\Altiris\Dagent\dagentui.exe String
HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\currentversion\run KeyAccess kass.exe String
You can easily export that to csv. Notice that I used get-item to get the top level key properties. get-childitem can't even do that. But you can pipe get-childitem -recurse to get-itemproperty2.