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Formerly known as the "Hey, Scripting Guy!" 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. (image) 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 ...

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: There are a lot of cmdlets in the module, ...

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 data type has some cool static members, but we're mostly going...

PowerShell PowerTip: History of commands with PSReadline

August 7, 2018 Aug 7, 2018 08/7/18

Kory Thacher

One of the really cool things PSReadline provides (module shipping on v5+) isn't as immediately obvious as the syntax highlighting. It offers a persistent history that is stored from session to session. This means if you run commands in a window, close it, and open a new one later you can still hit the up arrow and scroll through them. I ...

Regular Expressions (REGEX): Basic symbols

July 31, 2018 Jul 31, 2018 07/31/18

Kory Thacher

Welcome back to the RegEx guide. Last post we talked a little bit about the basics of RegEx and its uses. I mentioned the most important thing is to understand the symbols. Today we'll ease in with some of the basics to get us going, but later we will expand on these and see some other options we have. is used to represent any single ...

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