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Use an Easy PowerShell Command to Search Files for Information

August 4, 2011 Aug 4, 2011 08/4/11
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Learn how to use a Windows PowerShell command to search easily for information in a collection of files.   Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to be able to parse multiple files for text that are in a single folder. I hate to have to write a script for such a common task, but I am afraid I will have to do so. Can you help me? —SH &...

Scripting Wife Uses PowerShell to Create Files Automatically

March 30, 2011 Mar 30, 2011 03/30/11
ScriptingGuy1
Summary: The Scripting Wife learns how to use Windows PowerShell to automatically create files with the date stored in them. The room seems quiet now. I take a deep breath, let it out slowly, and begin to relax. My name is Ed Wilson. I am the Microsoft Scripting Guy. I have just completed the second in a series of five Live Meetings during ...

Create a Custom File Extension by Using PowerShell

February 5, 2011 Feb 5, 2011 02/5/11
ScriptingGuy1
Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to create a custom file extension to store code snippets. Weekend Scripter: Creating a .snip file type Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. After I created the Get-CodeSnippet function yesterday, I decided that it might be useful to have my own file extension to keep track of code snippets. ...

A Windows PowerShell Carol: Ebenezer Script Creates Text Files

December 23, 2010 Dec 23, 2010 12/23/10
ScriptingGuy1
Summary: A Windows PowerShell Carol in which Ebenezer Script learns how to create and to delete text files using PowerShell.   Hey, Scripting Guy! Will Ebenezer Script ever see how easy it is to use Windows PowerShell to work with text files? -- SK   Hello SK, Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. It is almost the end of the year...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Weekend Scripter: The Scripting Wife Redirects Output and Creates a Text File

April 11, 2010 Apr 11, 2010 04/11/10
ScriptingGuy1
 Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. I love it when it rains. It sings of cleansing, freshness, new birth, and endless possibilities. Especially when it is a gentle spring rain like we are enjoying right now. It reminds me of when the Scripting Wife and I first went to Maui, Hawaii. We were staying near the beach, and every afternoon ...