Category Archives: PowerShell v5

There’s a subtle Group-Object change in PowerShell v6.1. In PowerShell v5.1 if you do this: $ts = ‘ffrluoluntlvxutxbdvbktgyyvsvcrkxoyfotzkzogcwuwycmnhuedk’ $ts.ToCharArray() | group You get this: Count Name                      Group —– —-                      —–     3 f                         {f, f, f}     2 r                         {r, … Continue reading →

Between Windows PowerShell v5.1 and PowerShell v6.x I’ve noticed an Update-Help difference. In Windows PowerShell v5.1 I can just do this: Update-Help  -Force from an elevated prompt. In PowerShell v6.0 and V6.1 previews I have to give the UI culture … Continue reading →

Discovering the PowerShell version you’re using can be an interesting task. The automatic variable $PSVersionTable was introduced in PowerShell v2.  On my Windows 10 version 1803 machine for Windows PowerShell I get PS> $PSVersionTable Name                           Value —-                           —– PSVersion                      5.1.17134.48 … Continue reading →

Powershell v5 introduced the Compress- and Expand-Archive cmdlets which enabled you to manage compressed archives. I had a question about how you could control adding files to archives using a CSV file. This is how you do a controlled zip. … Continue reading →

Every so often I find a new cmdlet in PowerShell. This was the case with Clear-RecycleBin that I’ve just found. It appears to have been introduced with PowerShell 5.0 BUT isn’t available in PowerShell 6.0 With pretty simple syntax PS> … Continue reading →