Monthly Archives: December 2018

Here’s some links for other PowerShell articles I’ve written recently https://searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com/tip/PowerShell-commands-to-copy-files-Basic-to-advanced-methods https://searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com/tutorial/PowerShell-commands-for-Active-Directory-Groups-management https://searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com/tip/PowerShell-Core-61-offers-many-small-improvements https://searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com/tutorial/How-PowerShell-Direct-helps-polish-off-those-VMs https://searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com/tutorial/Working-with-PowerShell-module-downloads-from-the-gallery Enjoy

When a file is created, accessed or modified that time is recorded. This is how to change file times. There are three properties to consider: CreationTime LastAccessTime LastWriteTime Just to add to the fun there are UTC (GMT in real … Continue reading →

How do you get first non-repeating character in a string. In Windows PowerShell v5.1 you could use Group-Object but as I showed last time that approach has been taken away in PowerShell v6.1. Instead you need to loop through the … Continue reading →

If you’re given a string how would you go about counting vowels, consonants  and non-alphabet characters. My approach would be: function measure-vowel {   [CmdletBinding()]   param (     [string]$teststring   )   $counts = [ordered]@{      Vowels      = 0      Consonants  = 0      NonAlphabet = … Continue reading →

I often need to create a random string of characters. Here’s a simple function to achieve that: function get-randomstring {   [CmdletBinding()]   param (     [int]$length   )   $rca = 1..$length |   foreach {     $ran = Get-Random -Minimum 97 -Maximum 123     [char][byte]$ran   … Continue reading →

Staying with our current theme of manipulating strings this is how you find duplicate characters in a string. function get-duplicatechar {   [CmdletBinding()]   param (     [string]$teststring   )      $teststring.ToCharArray() |   Group-Object -NoElement |   where Count -gt 1 |   Sort-Object -Property Count … Continue reading →