{"id":2128,"date":"2014-01-25T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/01\/25\/powertip-use-powershell-to-choose-random-letters\/"},"modified":"2014-01-25T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-choose-random-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-choose-random-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Choose Random Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Use Windows PowerShell to choose random letters.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to arrange five letters in a random order?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Get-Random<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet, specify the letters as input values, <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; and then use the&nbsp;<b>&ndash;count<\/b>&nbsp;parameter to specify how many to choose:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Get-Random -InputObject &#039;a&#039;,&#039;b&#039;,&#039;c&#039;,&#039;d&#039;,&#039;e&#039; -Count 5<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to choose random letters. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to arrange five letters in a random order? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Random&nbsp;cmdlet, specify the letters as input values, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; and then use the&nbsp;&ndash;count&nbsp;parameter to specify how many to choose: Get-Random -InputObject &#039;a&#039;,&#039;b&#039;,&#039;c&#039;,&#039;d&#039;,&#039;e&#039; -Count 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-2128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to choose random letters. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to arrange five letters in a random order? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Random&nbsp;cmdlet, specify the letters as input values, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; and then use the&nbsp;&ndash;count&nbsp;parameter to specify how many to choose: Get-Random -InputObject &#039;a&#039;,&#039;b&#039;,&#039;c&#039;,&#039;d&#039;,&#039;e&#039; -Count 5<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}