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Turning the dial to 11 with Custom TypeConverters

October 19, 2006 Oct 19, 2006 10/19/06
PowerShell Team
If you are the sort of bloke that likes to turn the dial to 11, you should check out Abhishek's recent blog entry on Custom TypeConverters: http://abhishek225.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!13469C7B7CE6E911!191.entry Much of the power of Windows PowerShell comes from the type coercion capabilities of our ObjectFlow engine.  This is ...

Get-Process Piped to Dir

September 17, 2006 Sep 17, 2006 09/17/06
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Did you know that you can pipe the output of Get-Process into dir?  Don't believe it?  Let me prove it: PS> Get-Process wi*Handles  NPM(K)    PM(K)      WS(K) VM(M)   CPU(s)     Id ProcessName-------  ------    -----   &...

BaseName for FileInfo objects

June 24, 2006 Jun 24, 2006 06/24/06
PowerShell Team
<Edited to add categories>In our active, responsive, and useful newsgroup Microsoft.Public.Windows.PowerShell (SELL SELL SELL :-) ),  MVP Alex Angelopoulos recented posted the following: Although file extension changing is a common technique in administrative tasks, the System.IO.FileInfo class does not provide a direct ...

Base64 Encode/Decode a string

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06
PowerShell Team
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 ...