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Automating the world one-liner at a time…

Why did you do that? $VAR/ {} / Weak Intellisense

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06
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I strongly encourage people to let us know where we could be doing better and to let us know if we are getting into the weeds.  I believe that being open to such bad news is core to the the virtuous cycle of self improvement so such feedback provides opportunities to reflect and make changes when appropriate.  Other ...

Monitor the Event Log

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06
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Administrators often want to monitor the event logs and look for specific error conditions.  The most capable way to do this, of course, is to use a dedicated monitoring application such as Microsoft Operations Manager, or get down-and-dirty with the Win32 API NotifyChangeEventLog.  However, Monad can be used for simple applications...

GetObject()

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06
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Monad provides a way to create new com objects with new-object $ie = New-Object -ComObject InternetExplorer.Application$ie.Navigate2(http://blogs.msdn.com/monad)$ie.Visible=1 Great but what about if you want to bind to an existing object?  Where is the equivalent of GetObject()? This is one of those good new/bad news stories.  First ...

Base64 Encode/Decode a string

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06
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Today I came across http://scripts.readify.net/  . This sight is focused on Monad and MSH and is starting a collection of scripts at: http://scripts.readify.net/Scripts.aspx .  You should visit their site and let them know what type of scripts would be useful to you.  I particularly liked their entry on how to Base64 ...

Check Spelling Script

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06
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After reading Marcel's introductory piece on ScriptBlock, I decided to rewrite an old script of mine that checks the spelling of all text files in a directory. Here is what I came out with. #region Parse a line to a list of words $StringFind ={param ($str, $start, $cond)  if ($start -ge 0 -and $start -lt $str....

Working with Sort-Object Cmdlet

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06
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In this blog I will try to explain different features of sort-object(Sort) cmdlet. For the purpose of this blog, I assume the following objects exist:   MSH C:\temp\monad> $a,$b,$c,$d                           &...

Is it safe to use ALIASES in scripts?

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06
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In our newsgroup (Microsoft.Public.Windows.Server.Scripting) , Mark Ayers asked the question:> Shouldn't best practice for scripts be full command name? The answer is YES, NO, and MAYBE. YES - Full names provide the most readable experience for scripts.  This is very important.  People often throw the rock at Perl saying...

Verb-Noun vs Noun-Verb

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06
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Kurt asked the question "why not Noun-Verb vs Verb-Noun" in his post: http://blogs.msdn.com/monad/archive/2006/02/16/533522.aspx#574708 There are lots of answers to this some better than others.  Let me rattle off a couple of them: Jeffrey P. SnoverMonad Architect [Edit: Monad has now been renamed to Windows PowerShell. This script or ...