Automating the world one-liner at a time…
September 17, 2006Sep 17, 200609/17/06I was going to post a blog entries and realized that the example I wanted to give used some of my utility functions so I’ll share them first. I hope you find them interesting. I put them in a file called LibraryTime.ps1 and dot source that during my login.
September 17, 2006Sep 17, 200609/17/06Larry Hayden posted a query about dates at:http://techtasks.com/bookmarks/powershell/2006/09/interview-with-a-scripter-jeffrey-snover/
He has a script which gets all the Application Events that happened TODAY:
————————————————————$today = [DateTime]::Today$Events = Get-Eventlog -New 1024 Application | Where {$Today -le $_.TimeWritten}$Events |Group EntryType,Source |Format-Table Count,Name -Auto————————————————————
What Larry really wants is the Application Events that happend in the last 24 hours.
August 31, 2006Aug 31, 200608/31/06PSMDTAG:FAQ: How do I read/write data from a Serial Port?
Writing to a Serial Port
PS> [System.IO.Ports.SerialPort]::getportnames()COM3PS> $port= new-Object System.IO.Ports.SerialPort COM3,9600,None,8,onePS> $port.open()PS> $port.WriteLine(“Hello world”)PS> $port.Close()
Reading from a Serial Port
PS> $port= new-Object System.IO.Ports.SerialPort COM3,9600,None,8,onePS> $port.Open()PS> $port.ReadLine()
For information about how to read from a serial port in an asynchronous manner in PowerShell V2,
July 24, 2006Jul 24, 200607/24/06Arild asked the following in http://arildf.spaces.msn.com/blog/cns!E99F8B43533149B0!140.entry?_c%3dBlogPart :
PSMDTAG:FAQ: Delegates – how to cast a scriptblock to an arbitrary delegate signature? ANSWER – You can’t in V1.0.
In version 1.0 Windows PowerShell only supports casting scriptblocks to delegates with the signature:
void Method(Object Sender, object e)
For instance,
July 15, 2006Jul 15, 200607/15/06A user on the newsgroup wondered whether the example below highlighted a bug or a feature. They applied multiple type declarations on a single parameter and Windows PowerShell did not complain.
function check { param([string] [int] $y = 0, $x = 0)###^^^^^^^^^^^^
July 12, 2006Jul 12, 200607/12/06PSMDTAG:FAQ: What is a TYPE SHORTCUT?PSMDTAG:FAQ: What are the TYPE SHORTCUTS?
Type shortcuts are a Windows PowerShell feature that allows you to reduce the amount of typing you have to do when specifying a type.
For example, the following 2 statements produce the same result:
[System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex]”^c.*”
June 16, 2006Jun 16, 200606/16/06PSMDTAG:FAQ: How do I display large numbers with commas?PSMDTAG:FAQ: How do I use .NET formatting strings?
As scripters, we often spend tons of times trying to get our data formated just the right way. Often this is an error-prone, frustrating experience.
April 25, 2006Apr 25, 200604/25/06One of our primary goals for Monad was to: “Expose the power of .NET in an Admin-friendly way”.
The challenges of systems administration are large and growing at the same time organizations are under ever more pressure to reduce costs and do more with less.
April 25, 2006Apr 25, 200604/25/06Today 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.
April 25, 2006Apr 25, 200604/25/06
Most shells (such as Windows CMD.EXE and the UNIX shells SH, KSH, CSH, and BASH) operate by executing a command or utility in a new process, and presenting the results (or errors) to the user as text. Text-based processing is the way in which system interaction is done with these shells.
