Here's a tougher task. Read a list of computer names from a file, with one name per line, and show each computer's service pack number. In VBScript, this task would require a dozen or more lines of code. In Cmd.exe, you would have to use a complicated batch file. In Windows ...
Only members of the Administrators group on the computer can update help for the core PowerShell modules, the commands that are installed together with PowerShell, and for modules in the$PSHOME\Modulesfolder. If you don't have permission to update help files, you can read the help files onl...
I have to hook up the click event to some PowerShell code, read the values in the text boxes, pass them as parameters to the Get-PresentValue and bind it to the ListView. Do-Calculation Function I’m going to add a Do-Calculation function...
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...
Prerequisites I have written a descriptive issue title. I have searched all open and closed issues to ensure it has not already been reported. I have read the troubleshooting guide. I am sure this issue is with the extension itself and d...
TheFormat-Hexcmdlet can help you determine the file type of a corrupted file or a file that might not have a filename extension. You can run this cmdlet, and then read the hexadecimal output to get file information. When usingFormat-Hexon a file, the cmdlet ignores newlin...
As you can see in Figure 10, first I get a listing of the current user roles, and then I add a user to the Read-Only Operators group (see Figure 11).Figure 10 Displaying user roles (Click the image for a larger view)Figure 11 Adding a user (Click the image for a larger view)...
Native pipe PowerShell (via .NET) converts output from native commands to text. This canbreak scenarioswhere you want to pipe binary data from one command into another. We expect to have a new experimental feature to enable the pipeline to correctly handle binary output from native commands. ...
[<CommonParameters>] dir [[-Filter] <string>]-LiteralPath<string[]> [-Include <string[]>] [-Exclude <string[]>] [-Recurse] [-Depth <uint>] [-Force] [-Name] [-Attributes <FlagsExpression[FileAttributes]>] [-FollowSymlink] [-Directory] [-File] [-Hidden] [-ReadOnly] [-System] ...
Calling the same function from within the function (calling itself) Can a file be too large to be read with Get-Content ? Can a webpage be opened in a browser by a PowerShell command, but leave the PowerShell console window as the active window? Can I change the Pagefile Location via...