Jeffery Hicks as a very nice File Aging script. The thing that Iike about it is that it provides a very good illustration of how to use a number of PowerShell features including:<\/p>\n
He had one technique that could be improved. Here is a line from the script: <\/p>\n
\n$GrandTotal=”{0:N2}” -f ($GrandTotal\/1048576)<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The question is, what is that number? Well you might guess that that is 1 MegaByte and you are probably correct but are you sure that a MegaByte isn’t 1045876? I transpose numbers all the time, maybe Jeffery did as well. He didn’t but you see the points 1) if it was wrong – would you be able to recognize that it was wrong? 2) if you had to write this yourself – are you going to (a) remember what to type and (b) type it correctly? You are much better off using our built-in support for “KB”, “MB”, “GB” and make this:<\/p>\n
\n$GrandTotal=”{0:N2}” -f ($GrandTotal\/1mb)<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Here is a demo:<\/p>\n
PS> 1kb
1024
PS> 1mb
1048576
PS> 1gb
1073741824
PS> 1kb+2mb+3gb
3223323648<\/p>\nCheck out Jeffery’s File Aging script at: http:\/\/sapien.eponym.com\/blog\/_archives\/2006\/12\/14\/2571520.html<\/a><\/p>\n
Jeffery and Don Jones have been doing lots of great stuff at that web site so you take some time to check it out.<\/p>\n
Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
Windows PowerShell\/MMC Architect
Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell<\/a>
Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at: http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeffery Hicks as a very nice File Aging script. The thing that Iike about it is that it provides a very good illustration of how to use a number of PowerShell features including: Working with Files Working with Dates Control structures: if, foreach, switch Working with Formating strings Using colorized output He had one technique […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":13641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"
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