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Debugging Monad Scripts, Part 3: Write-Host

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06

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Did your command or script fail and/or report an error? We hope to have a proper script debugger in a future version, but until then, MSH has some handy features to help you figure out what went wrong. In this series of blog entries, I will present some of those features. Thanks to Jim Truher [MSFT], Bruce Payette [MSFT], ...

Debugging Monad Scripts, Part 2: $error

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06

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Debugging Monad Scripts, Part 1: Teminating vs. Non-Terminating, ErrorRecord

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06

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Image Conversion

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06

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I needed to convert some images from bmp to gif for a web site I've been working on. I figured that I could script this pretty easy - here's what I came up with. It's a little more general than I needed, and I thought it might be useful to others. Anyway, it's useful to me. # Convert one graphic...

Duplicate Files 2

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06

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A long time ago I posted a filter (AddNote) for adding notes to objects. Some time later I posted a function (Get-MD5) for calculating the MD5 hash of a file and somebody asked how that could be used in a script to list all the files in a given folder that are very likely the same. I like that question because the answer it ...

Duplicate Files

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06

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Need a way to check if two files are the same? Calculate a hash of the files. Here is one way to do it: ## Calculates the hash of a file and returns it as a string. function Get-MD5([System.IO.FileInfo] $file = $(throw 'Usage: Get-MD5 [System.IO.FileInfo]')) { $stream = $null; $cryptoServiceProvider = [...

Adding Notes

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06

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A while back I mentioned that there was a way of adding notes to objects in the shell. Here is one way to do it: ## Adds a note to the pipeline input. filter AddNote([string] $name, $value) { $mshObj = [System.Management.Automation.MshObject] $_; $note = new-object System.Management.AUtomation.MshNoteProperty $name, $value $mshObj....

MshObject and Methods that take object

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06

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Every once in a while people ( including me) run into trouble calling methods that take object. Why? Well, as I told you earlier objects in MSH are wrapped by an invisible MshObject. As it turns out that this invisible object is not always so invisible. Take a look at the following: MSH>$key = get-item . ...

Support for Existing apps in Monad

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06

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Monad provides strong support for existing apps and technology. If you use native cmdline exes, vbscripts, batch files, perl scripts etc to manage and maintain windows, you can pretty much use them the same way from monad as you would from cmd.exe. For example, I am used to findstr.exe and xcopy.exe. I can use them from monad ...

Did you know? #4

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06

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Did you know that you can access most of the Cmdlet base class APIs through script using the $executioncontext variable? -Jeff Jones...