PowerShell: create the manifest file for many modules at once

Today I had to create the manifest for several modules in one go. We had more than 10 modules (.psm1), each one in its own folder, and I needed to add a manifest to them so I could set the company of each module. Thanks to the PowerShell pipeline, I didn’t have to work very hard to get it done:

ls *.psm1 -Recurse | ForEach-Object {
                                        $manifestFileName = $_.BaseName + ".psd1"
                                        $manifestPath = Join-Path $_.Directory $manifestFileName
                                        $companyConstant = "AnyCompany"
                                        New-ModuleManifest -Path $manifestPath  -RootModule $_.Name -Author $companyConstant -CompanyName $companyConstant -Copyright $companyConstant -FileList @($_.Name)
                                        Write-Host $manifestPath
                                    }

It’s a silly script, nothing mysterious about it, but I’m writing it down here for the future. The reason I needed this was so I could later unload all the loaded modules from this company in one go. That’s pretty easy too:

Get-module | Where-Object { $_.CompanyName -eq "AnyCompany" } | Remove-Module