A "tail -f" equivalent command in Powershell to show real time logging A call to SSPI failed A connection to the directory on which to process the request was unavailable. This is likely a transient condition. A fast way to remove duplicated lines from an unsorted text file? a lot of c...
As the name implies, Windows PowerShell is a shell, not unlike the Command Prompt (Cmd.exe) that's been around since Windows NT® 3.1. Cmd.exe isn't going away, but with the availability of Windows PowerShell, there are few reasons to continue using Cmd.exe....
Get-Command -module Microsoft.PowerShell.Management *service* Surprisingly, there’s no Windows PowerShell function for removing (that is, uninstalling) a service. This is one of the rare cases when it’s still necessary to use the old sc.exe tool: XML Copy sc.exe del...
As I was learning Windows PowerShell, I found myself wishing it had the same functionality. So I grabbed Open Command Window Here’s setup .inf file, cmdhere.inf, from the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools and modified it to create a Windows PowerShell Prompt Here context menu. This...
The–Forceparameter lets you override restrictions that prevent the command from succeeding. However, it will not modify security or change file permissions. By default, if a transcript file exists in the specified path, Start-Transcript will overwrite the file without warning. The–noClobberparameter...
When Microsoft created Windows PowerShell, it was designed to make it easy to create other command-line tools that offer the same consistency and reliability as the tools that shipped as a part of Windows PowerShell. This is in large part because the shell has a single parser for all ...
If you want to get the new file in another folder, you must specify the complete path; and make sure that the targeted directory exists; Otherwise, you will be unable to make changes to the unknown directory or drive. The command given below will create a new text file “file2” in ...
The Get-Content command is the most common way to read a text file in PowerShell (PowerShell cat equivalent). Here is the basic syntax of the Get-Content cmdlet: Get-Content [-Path] <string[]> [-Raw] [-Encoding <Encoding>] [-AsByteStream] [-Exclude <string[]>] [-Filter <string>...
To expand / enhance the report it was suggested to create it in HTML format. So back to PowerShell we go and low and behold we find the ConvertTo-Html cmdlet. Looking at the get-help and document one would think that using the command is straight forward, but in reality it is a bit...
A "tail -f" equivalent command in Powershell to show real time logging A call to SSPI failed A connection to the directory on which to process the request was unavailable. This is likely a transient condition. A fast way to remove duplicated lines from an unsorted text file? a lot of ...