As part of creating Windows PowerShell modules, I have recently created a script to create the structure required, as follows:
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| [CmdletBinding()] | |
| Param ( | |
| [String] | |
| $ModuleName = "TestModule", | |
| [String] | |
| $Author = "", | |
| [String] | |
| [ValidateScript({Get-Item $_ })] | |
| $Path = "C:\Sandbox\PowerShell\Modules" | |
| ) | |
| New-Item ($Path + "\" + $ModuleName + "\" + $ModuleName) -Type Directory | Out-Null | |
| New-Item ($Path + "\" + $ModuleName + "\" + $ModuleName + "\Private") -Type Directory | Out-Null | |
| New-Item ($Path + "\" + $ModuleName + "\" + $ModuleName + "\Public") -Type Directory | Out-Null | |
| New-Item ($Path + "\" + $ModuleName + "\" + $ModuleName + "\en-US") -Type Directory | Out-Null | |
| New-Item ($Path + "\" + $ModuleName + "\" + $ModuleName + "\lib") -Type Directory | Out-Null | |
| New-Item ($Path + "\" + $ModuleName + "\" + $ModuleName + "\bin") -Type Directory | Out-Null | |
| New-Item ($Path + "\" + $ModuleName + "\Tests") -Type Directory | Out-Null | |
| New-Item ($Path + "\" + $ModuleName + "\" + $ModuleName + "\" + $ModuleName + ".psm1") -Type File | Out-Null | |
| New-Item ($Path + "\" + $ModuleName + "\" + $ModuleName + "\" + $ModuleName + ".Format.ps1.xml") -Type File | Out-Null | |
| New-Item ($Path + "\" + $ModuleName + "\" + $ModuleName + "\en-US\about_$ModuleName.help.txt") -Type File | Out-Null | |
| New-Item ($Path + "\" + $ModuleName + "\Tests\" + $ModuleName + ".Tests.ps1") -Type File | Out-Null |
This will create the following items in the specified path:
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