Summary: Learn to use Windows PowerShell to count the number of photographs you have on your computer. How can I use Windows PowerShell to count all the photographs I have on a specific drive? Use the Get-ChildItem cmdlet to find all of the photos, and then pipe the results to the Measur...
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to obtain metadata from photo files. Hey, Scripting Guy! I need some help. I have thousands of photo files on my computer. I need to bring some order to them. I know that I can use Get-ChildItem from Windows PowerShell, and I can find the size of files and names...
Summary: Learn how to get a directory listing of multiple folders. How can I use Windows PowerShell to look at the contents of multiple folders at once? Use the Get-ChildItem cmdlet, and specify more than one folder for the path, for example: Get-ChildItem –path c:\fso,c:\music
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shares a function that gets file metadata, and then he writes the information to a CSV file. Hey, Scripting Guy! Getting basic file properties such as the file name, the size of a file, and the directory that a file resides in is pretty cool. But when I go into a folder that contains music files, I see...
Summary: Learn how to easily create a CSV file in Windows PowerShell. How can I create a CSV file so I can open data that I output to the Windows PowerShell console to manipulate it in Microsoft Excel? Pipe the data to the Export-CSV cmdlet and use the –NoTypeInformation switch, for example: Get-Process | Selec...
