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Writing Double Quotation Marks to a Text File Using Windows PowerShell

July 28, 2010 Jul 28, 2010 07/28/10

ScriptingGuy1

  Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to be able to write double quotation marks to a text file using Windows PowerShell. I know that in VBScript it was really annoying to do this because the quotation marks ended up getting confused with the quotation mark that was used to indicate the start of a string; when the next quotation mark was seen, ...

Deleting Extra Returns and Line Feeds from a Text File Using Windows PowerShell

July 27, 2010 Jul 27, 2010 07/27/10

ScriptingGuy1

  Hey, Scripting Guy! Is it possible to use Windows PowerShell to groom a text file by deleting extra returns and line feeds it may contain? Here is the deal. I have a file that we need to download each day. This file contains updated prices for commodities used in our manufacturing operation. We use the updated commodity pricing to ...

Parsing an AuditPol.exe Report with Windows PowerShell 2.0

July 26, 2010 Jul 26, 2010 07/26/10

ScriptingGuy1

  Hey, Scripting Guy! I have been using AuditPol.exe to verify the audit policy that is configured on our network. The problem is that the report that is generated has a lot of text, and it is not easy to see exactly what is being audited or not. Is it possible to use Windows PowerShell 2.0 to parse the report generated by AuditPol.exe ...