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Editing your Profile file

December 28, 2006 Dec 28, 2006 12/28/06
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$hay has a new scripting blog at http://scriptolog.blogspot.com/ .  His first blog entry Restart your engine - The PowerShell Way, talks about how he frequently edits his PowerShell profile file and then restarts his session.  In his directions he says: 2: type: Notepad $profile to open your profile file I looked at this and...

Windows PowerShell in Action

October 11, 2006 Oct 11, 2006 10/11/06
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Well folks, at long last, my book is almost done :-) Before it goes out for print, you can get electronic copies through Manning's early access program: http://www.manning.com/payette/  The early access program is a chance for readers to provide feedback on a book so the author can fix things.  As Jeffrey says - enjoy! -bruce...

Setting the console title to be your current working directory

July 21, 2006 Jul 21, 2006 07/21/06
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jmanning wrote: Also, given how common the request is, I'd ask Jeffrey to (pretty-please) also include in this post a prompt function that sets the title to include pwd. Ask and yea shall receive: function Prompt{  $host.ui.RawUI.WindowTitle = $(get-location)  "PS> "} If you want to see a bunch of great prompt examples, check ...

PSMDTAG:FAQ: What is $OFS

July 15, 2006 Jul 15, 2006 07/15/06
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In my blog entry regarding Cascading Type Casts ( http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2006/07/15/Cascading_Type_Casts.aspx ) there was an example: PS> [string][char[]][int[]][char[]]"PowerShell" P o w e r S h e l l And in a comment was a question asking why there were spaces between the letters.  The answer is $OFS   ...

Perserving Command History Across Sessions

July 1, 2006 Jul 1, 2006 07/1/06
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<Edited 7/2/2006 to add tags and Categories> Ben Winzenz didn't like the fact that Windows PowerShell did not maintain history lists between sessions (http://winzenz.blogspot.com/2006/06/cool-mshpowershell-tidbit.html) .   We hear you Ben.  Back to my least favorite phrase, "to ship is to choose".  That said, we ...

Cleaning up obsolete Windows PowerShell Aliases

June 23, 2006 Jun 23, 2006 06/23/06
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Over the course of time, I've written a number of functions & cmdlets and then created aliases for those.  Many of those where Ad Hoc and I've since thrown them away but I still have the aliases sticking around.  Here is a quick and easy way to determine the validity of your aliases gal |%{if (!(gcm $_.Definition -ea ...