New-Item recursive registry keys

Question

With PowerShell you can run a command like this

ni c:/foo/bar -type directory

and it will create foo and bar as necessary. However if you run

ni hklm:software/classes/firefoxhtml/shell/edit/command -type directory

all keys but the last must exist or an error will be generated. Can PowerShell generate the parent keys as needed?

Answer 1

I was just missing the -force parameter

New-Item hklm:software/classes/firefoxhtml/shell/edit/command -Force

Using -Force will also remove everything under the key if it already exists so a better option would be

if(!(Test-Path $path)){
    New-Item $path -Force;
}