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Summary: Learn how to skip the beginning and ending portions of a text file by using Windows PowerShell in this article by the Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson. This is the second post in a multi-part series of blog posts that deal with how to determine letter frequency in text files. To fully understand this post, you should read the entire ...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson talks about using Windows PowerShell 5.0 on Windows 10 to create temporary files in the temporary folder.   Sometimes it is the little things that make life easier. You know, like a cereal bar … it’s not like a major technological breakthrough but it is much more convenient than getting a bowl ...

Summary: Boe Prox shows how to use Windows PowerShell to display hidden files.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to display hidden files and folders? There are a couple of approaches that use Get-ChildItem...

Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about using Windows PowerShell to sort, search, and to filter through a directory list. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. One of my friends on Facebook posted a picture of a bunch of hardwood trees all decked out in fall colors. It was rather pretty. That is the down side to living in ...

Summary: Learn how to recurse a specific number of levels in a directory with Windows PowerShell 5.0.  How can I recurse only three levels into a deeply nested directory structure?  In Windows PowerShell 5.0, the Get-ChildItem cmdlet has a new –Depth parameter            that will ...