The variables, aliases, and functions in your PowerShell profiles are also created in the global scope. The global scope is the root parent scope in a runspace. Local: The current scope. The local scope can be the global scope or any other scope. Script: The scope that's created while ...
You can assign the results of any pipeline into a variable. It's an array if it contains multiple items.PowerShell Copy $array = 1..5 | ForEach-Object { "ATX-SQL-$PSItem" } Normally when we think of using the pipeline, we think of the typical PowerShell one-liners. We can ...
The pipeline executes the Set-Service cmdlet once for each input object. For each execution, the input object is passed to Set-Service as the first parameter of the cmdlet, which is the service name. Set-Service executes, using the input object for its first parameter and whatever other para...
There's no limit to the number of aliases that you can assign to a parameter. The following example shows a parameter declaration that adds the CN and MachineName aliases to the mandatory ComputerName parameter. PowerShell Copy param( [Parameter(Mandatory)] [Alias("CN","MachineNa...
A function is a list of PowerShell statements that has a name that you assign. When you run a function, you type the function name. The statements in the list run as if you had typed them at the command prompt. Functions can be as simple as: PowerShell Copy function Get-PowerShell...
If you assign a character range to a string, it's treated the same assigning a character array to a string. PowerShell PS> [string]$s='a'..'e'$sa b c d e$a='a','b','c','d','e'$aa b c d e The characters in the array are joined into a string. The characters are ...
Again, if TestVariable does not exist PowerShell will create the new environment variable for us. If TestVariabledoesexist, then PowerShell will assign it the valueTest value. One thing to watch out for: when we used SetEnvironmentVariable to create a new user- or machine-level environment ...
You can see what’s going on here: we’re taking our array ($arrColors) and “piping” it to the Sort-Object cmdlet. After Sort-Object sorts the items in the array, we then assign this new, sorted list back to $arrColors. So now what is $arrColors equal to? This:Copy ...
AsSecureString. The second is to assign the properties of the user account whose password you want to change to a variable using $UserAccount = Get-LocalUser -Name AccountName. Once you’ve done that, you can use the $UserAccount | Set-LocalUser -Password $Password command to assi...
In thread sessions, they are passed by reference. This means it is possible to modify call scope variables in a different thread.To safely modify variables requires thread synchronization. To me, coming from C#/C++ background, passing by reference means that you can assign these variables and ...