2018 - Scripting Blog

PowerShell PowerTip: Customizing your prompt

November 13, 2018 Nov 13, 2018 11/13/18

Kory Thacher

I've been taking a break from the blog for a while due to some personal reasons, but I had a few people ask me about my PowerShell prompt recently. I like extra horizontal space, so I removed the path from the prompt and put it in the window title bar. I also just display the current time in the prompt itself...

PowerTip: Use PowerShell to pick a random name from a list

September 15, 2018 Sep 15, 2018 09/15/18

Doctor Scripto

Using the Get-Random Cmdlet to select a random list of names instead of numbers

Using PowerShell to create a folder of Demo data

September 15, 2018 Sep 15, 2018 09/15/18

Doctor Scripto

Creating sample files with random sizes and dates for use in a Lab

PowerShell PowerTip: searching and installing modules on the command line

August 21, 2018 Aug 21, 2018 08/21/18

Kory Thacher

PowerShell 5+ ships with the module PowerShellGet, which lets us search and install modules from cmdlets. The default nuget repository is the PowerShell Gallery, but you could add others yourself (including custom ones for internal modules). There are a lot of reasons this could help you: You need a custom module installed on a machine for...

Regular Expressions (REGEX): Grouping & [RegEx]

August 14, 2018 Aug 14, 2018 08/14/18

Kory Thacher

Welcome back to the RegEx crash course. Last time we talked about the basic symbols we plan to use as our foundation. This week, we will be learning a new way to leverage our patterns for data extraction and how to rip our extracted data into pieces we care about. [RegEx] The [Regex] data type has some cool static members, but we're ...