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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 :-) (image) 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...

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 ...

Use of Preference Variables to control behavior of streams

July 4, 2006 Jul 4, 2006 07/4/06
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PSMDTAG:FAQ: Why don't I see output when I use Write-Verbose and Write-Debug?PSMDTAG:SHELL: Use of Preference Variables to control behavior of streams. In Windows PowerShell, the WRITE-XXX cmdlets merely sends things to a Named stream.  You then have user-defined preferences for what to do when things appear on that stream.  Alex ...

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 ...

The new TabExpansion feature…

April 26, 2006 Apr 26, 2006 04/26/06
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One of the nicest new features in the latest drop of Windows PowerShell is enhanced tab-completion. We now tab-complete properties on variables and parameters on cmdlets in addition to the old filename completion. But that's not the interesting part. The cool bit is that it's done through a user-definable function. In the same way that you can...

Comparative Examples in MSH and KSH

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06
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  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. Over the years, a large number of text ...