Question

I am trying to write a script in PowerShell to backup our collection of Mercurial repositories.

I started with this:

$repos=Get-ChildItem C:\hgrepos|Where-Object { $_.PSIsContainer }

This will get the first level of folders under C:\hgrepos, which normally would be fine, as this is where our repositories are located. However, subrepositories exist. So I need to go recursive. And most importantly, only folders containing a .hg subfolder should be listed.

Answer 1

You can use the -recurse flag in Get-ChildItem

It will be something like this:

gci c:\hgrepos -recurse -include ".hg" | %{$_.Parent}