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

Build a hexadecimal clock in PowerShell – Part 4

June 23, 2016 Jun 23, 2016 06/23/16

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Use PowerShell to navigate the neutral zone. Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, is here today to continue forth (not COBOL nor even Visual BASIC) into our silly yet fun quest to build a hexadecimal clock by using the PowerShell console. It does seem silly, doesn’t it? Yet, consider some of the things that we’ve learned in ...

PowerTip: Set a default value in a switch statement

June 22, 2016 Jun 22, 2016 06/22/16

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Use the default field in switch statement to have an assumed value. (image) I was playing with Select-String and would like to have it default to a value if none was trapped for. How can I do that? (image) Just use the Default keyword, and you can have an assumed value in the script block. In the following example, the switch is ...

Build a hexadecimal clock in PowerShell – Part 3

June 22, 2016 Jun 22, 2016 06/22/16

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Use Select-String in PowerShell to identify data and match it to an array. Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, is here today to play more with our funky, nerdy, cool hexadecimal clock. Yesterday we built out a small function named Get-HexTime to give us the current time that displays hex digits instead of decimal for hours, ...

Build a hexadecimal clock in PowerShell – Part 2

June 21, 2016 Jun 21, 2016 06/21/16

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Manipulate string data from Get-Date in PowerShell. Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, is here today to have a little more fun with our silly project to build a hexadecimal clock in the PowerShell console. Well, after all, who said scripting wasn’t allowed to be fun? That’s usually how I learn, by playing about! Yesterday, ...

PowerTip: Extend a string array in PowerShell

June 20, 2016 Jun 20, 2016 06/20/16

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Use the built in features of PowerShell to easily add new Element to a string array. (image) I created an array of strings in PowerShell, but I need to add to it. Is there a simple way to do this? (image) Absolutely. Just use += to add an element to your string array. In the following example, we add a new element to the array that...

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