In PowerShell scripts, it is often necessary to perform a particular action on all the files and subfolders in a directory. For example, delete, copy, move, or edit files according to a set of criteria. In this post we’ll show how to loop through files and folders and process each it...
In this tutorial, I will explain how to loop through an array in PowerShell. As a PowerShell user, you’ll often encounter situations where you need to iterate through an array to perform operations on each element. I will show you different methods toloop through array in PowerShell. To ...
I've got a plain text file with two server\instance names in it. The goal is to loop through each one, run some queries, and output the results to Excel files. It actually works as I'd want it to, but also kicks out some errors, as well as an extra excel file named _cfr_0916...
patterns.Length; i++) { try { regexPattern[i] = new Regex(patterns[i], regexOptions); } catch (ArgumentException ex) { ThrowTerminatingError(new ErrorRecord( ex, "InvalidRegularExpression", ErrorCategory.InvalidArgument, patterns[i] )); } } //Loop through patterns to create RegEx ...
Pipelining.With PowerShell, commands can be linked together through the pipe operator, symbolized as |. This approach lets the output from a given command become the input for the next command in the pipeline sequence. The PowerShell pipeline lets objects, rather than text strings, flow from on...
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We loop through the list and use $commonParams to splat the parameters to create each virtual machine. However, we want myVM2 to be created in a different region than the other virtual machines. Instead of adjusting the $commonParams hashtable, you can explicitly define the Location parameter...
Now let’s set up a foreach loop to loop through each item in $a. Inside that loop, we’re going to echo back the value of the UCaseName property, a property which we just invented a minute ago: Copy foreach ($i in $a) {$i.UCaseName} And what do you suppose we’re goin...
In Part 3,PowerShell Looping: Using While, I talked about usingWhileto loop through acollection. Today, I conclude the series by talking about the automaticForeachfeature. What’s the problem with Foreach? Suppose I have a Windows PowerShell cmdlet that returns a collection of objects. I do...
A recursive copy works its way through all the subfolders below the C:\test folder. PowerShell then creates a folder named test in the destination folder and copies the contents of C:\test into it. When copying between machines, you can useUniversal Naming Conventionpaths to bypass the ...