Monthly Archives: April 2008

One cmdlet that seems to be consistently overlooked is Measure-Object.   I recently saw a question – how can I count the number of services on my machine and saw this as the response   Get-service | foreach {$t=0} {$t … Continue reading →

Question came up on a forum – how do I rename files of the form A_B_C_1-2-3.txt  to  A_B_C_123.txt.  In other words how do I remove the hyphens from the name.   Get-ChildItem *.txt | ForEach-Object {    $name = $_.BaseName.Replace("-","")    Rename-Item … Continue reading →

Keep an eye on the announcements from the Microsoft Management Summit next week – http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2008/04/26/heading-to-microsoft-management-summit-mms-where-we-ll-show-powershell-ctp2.aspx    

One of the really powerful features of Powershell is the ability to expand strings   PS C:Scripts> $s = "Joe"PS C:Scripts> $st = "Hello $s"PS C:Scripts> $stHello Joe   However this breaks down if you have an array   PS … Continue reading →

The next CTP for PowerShell V2 is on the way – see   http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2008/04/24/how-could-you-top-ctp1.aspx   http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2008/04/24/changes-in-upcoming-ctp.aspx     Note the changes around remoting and that is this CTP it is only available on Windows 2008 and Vista

Another laptop failure (this time the hard disk) left me without a machine for the last few days.   Lets skip Web 2.0 and 3.0 – we need Web 11.0 – upload by telepathy