The “Hey, Scripting Guys!” blog has been retired. There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.

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Scripting Blog [archived]

Formerly known as the "Hey, Scripting Guy!" blog

PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Count Types of Images

March 21, 2015 Mar 21, 2015 03/21/15

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to count different types of image files. (image) How can I use Windows PowerShell to see a count of the different types of image files on my computer? (image) Use the Get-ChildItem cmdlet to find the image files and then pipe the results to the Group-Object cmdlet, &...

PSImaging Part 3: Group-ImageFile

March 21, 2015 Mar 21, 2015 03/21/15

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Guest blogger, Ben Vierck, talks about grouping similar images with Windows PowerShell. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today we have Ben Vierck back for Part 3 in his series about images. Before you begin, you might like to read: In first two blog posts of this series, we wrote the Windows PowerShell functions Test-...

PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Count Images

March 20, 2015 Mar 20, 2015 03/20/15

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to count images. (image) How can I use Windows PowerShell to count images on a drive? (image) Use the Get-ChildItem cmdlet, specify the path, and send the results to the Measure-Object cmdlet, for example: dir -Recurse -ea 0 -...

PSImaging Part 2: Export-Text from Images

March 20, 2015 Mar 20, 2015 03/20/15

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Guest blogger, Ben Vierck, talks about using Windows PowerShell to export text from an image. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Welcome back guest blogger Ben Vierck, for Part 2 of PSImaging. Read Part 1 before diving into today’s post: PSImaging Part 1: Test-Image. Now, here’s Ben... In first blog post of this ...

PowerTip: Read .exe Magic Number with PowerShell

March 19, 2015 Mar 19, 2015 03/19/15

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to see an .exe magic number. (image) How can I use Windows PowerShell to see the "magic number" associated with an executable file in Windows? (image) The term magic number refers to the bytes that occur at the beginning of every file and identify the format of file. &...

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