Someone knows for which strange reason Powershell doesn't show de 'tee'd' variable in the following snippet? # a.txt contains any text cat a.txt | tee -variable foovar | % { 'value of foovar: ' + $foovar } In practice, I'd like to do, in only one line, a search for some text and then, based on the results, process the text, for exampl...
Someone knows for which strange reason Powershell doesn't show de 'tee'd' variable in the following snippet? # a.txt contains any text cat a.txt | tee -variable foovar | % { 'value of foovar: ' + $foovar } In practice, I'd like to do, in only one line, a search for some text and then, based on the results, process the text, for ...
Hi there, I'm using Powershell 1.0 to remove an item from an Array. Here's my script: param ( [string]$backupDir = $(throw "Please supply the directory to housekeep"), [int]$maxAge = 30, [switch]$NoRecurse, [switch]$KeepDirectories ) $days = $maxAge * -1 # do not delete directories with these values in the path $...
Trying to run the following command in php to run powershell command... the following works: $output = shell_exec(escapeshellcmd('powershell get-service | group-object')); I can not run it like this: $output = shell_exec('powershell get-service | group-object'); it will not pass the pipe | character but if I try to run: $output...
Just trying to better understand why the second item below does not work. The first item is simple, the second seems clearer, the third seems unintuitive. # My path includes pscp so this works. pscp.exe -i $PRIVATE_KEY $file ${PROXY_USER}@${PROXY_HOST}:${PROXY_DIR} # This does not work. I get unexpected token error. Why? What does tha...
Hi, I run the following to unzip and want to over write the current files if they exist but the microsoft solution found here(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms723207%28VS.85%29.aspx) doesn't seem to work. I haven't found anything that says it works so is there a work around to select the 'yes to all' option? $zipPackage = (ne...
If I run: $output = shell_exec('powershell "get-service "dhcp""'); I get perfect output of the service dhcp showing running but if I run: $output = shell_exec('powershell "get-user "testing""'); I get nothing. I don't see any difference in what Im doing here - and why get-service would work but get-user would not. If I run it...
Every release I find it a good practice to go back and grab all the changeset notes to compare to the release notes to make sure we didn't miss anything. Since we have a blurb of all feature changes pretty well documented in the changeset notes, they're a valuable resource. What I haven't found is a good way to extract these from TFS 2...
i added web service as reference to a project and gave it name "days". but i dont actually understand how to work with it. can someone show me the way how to get data from it. in posh i get data from web service this way: $ws= New-WebServiceProxy -uri $xmld.Root.WebService.Address -credential $cred $xml = $ws.getdays() $xml ...
I am using a Powershell 1 script to kick off a Python program, and I want to then pause the Powershell until the Python has completed its work. (I have complete ownership of the Python file.) What is the best way to go about this? ...
Trying to Read a string in Powershell from an email with IMAP connect: I use the Mail.dll from http://www.lesnikowski.com/mail/ Docu: http://www.lesnikowski.com/mail/documentation/ I want to search for a specific Subject. What i have so far: [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("c:\mail.dll") $imap = new-object Lesnikowski.Client.IMAP.Ima...
I am trying to get the character count for each row in a text doc. The contents of my text doc are: 1 15 69 124 300 I've been trying variants of the PS script: get-content c:\serverlist.txt | foreach-object {measure-object -character} But the best I can get returned is: Lines Words Characters Property ------- --------...
Does anyone know of a utility for generating PowerShell cmdlet help files? Doing it by hand seems a bit tedious... I located: http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/09/01/new-and-improved-cmdlet-help-editor-tool.aspx Any updated versions? I can't select a module. I have a binary module. ...
I can't figure out why the following code fails: # test.ps1 "`$args: ($args)" "`$args count: $($args.length)" # this fails 0..$($args.length - 1) | %{ $args[$_] = ($args[$_] -replace '`n',"`n") } # this works $i = 0 foreach ( $el in $args ) { $args[$i] = $args[$i] -replace '`n',"`n"; $i++ } "$args" I'm calling it like so: rem from ...
Is there any way to run import-clixml cmdlet on a string or xml object? It requires a file path as input to produce ps objects and can't get input from an xml object. Since there is convertto-xml cmdlet which serializes ps object into xml object, why isn't there a convertfrom-xml, which would do the opposite? I am aware of System.Xml.Ser...
Disclaimer: i still suck at writing scripts please be gentle if this is a dumb question! :) What i'm doing is pretty simple. I am using a SqlServerCmdletSnapin which gives me the ability to run t-sql queries in powershell 1.0 and return it to either the console or a out-file. I am currently sending it to a .txt file, my code so far is h...
Is there an easy way in PowerShell to format numbers and the like in another locale? I'm currently writing a few functions to ease SVG generation for me and SVG uses . as a decimal separator, while PowerShell honors my locale settings (de-DE) when converting floating-point numbers to strings. Is there an easy way to set another locale f...
Hi, I'm using PowerShell v1.0 (It is a requirement that I cannot use 2.0) and am having trouble trying to programatically capture the cmdlet output in the Warning stream. In Powershell 2.0 it's easy: var powerShell = PowerShell.Create(); powerShell.AddCommand(someCommand); powerShell.Invoke(); foreach (var warning in powerShell.Strea...
When I run the below code on first attempt I get an unexplained error, but running the script again on a second attempt works fine...what would be wrong in my code? By the way I am creating the database before this step... $SqlConnection = New-Object System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection $SqlConnection.ConnectionString = "Server=$dBS...
I have a very simple Powershell v1.0 script to kill processes by name: $target = $args[0] get-process | where {$_.ProcessName -eq $target} | stop-process -Force which works. However, when I just had get-process | where {$_.ProcessName -eq $args[0]} | stop-process -Force it wouldn't find any processes. So why does the argument need ...