{"id":71762,"date":"2015-08-03T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/08\/03\/cool-stuff-about-powershell-5-0-in-windows-10\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:46:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:46:44","slug":"cool-stuff-about-powershell-5-0-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/cool-stuff-about-powershell-5-0-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Stuff about PowerShell 5.0 in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about cool stuff in Windows PowerShell 5.0 for Windows 10.<\/span><\/p>\n

Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Over the weekend, I installed Windows 10. It is way cool. I love what we have done with the charms bar…it is gone. I also like the streamlined user interface, the new Edge browser, and especially Windows PowerShell 5.0. I mean, it is awesome. It rocks.<\/p>\n

By the way, the easiest way to upgrade to Windows PowerShell 5.0 right now, is to upgrade to Windows 10—which by the way, is a free upgrade from Windows 7, 8, and 8.1. For now, that is what I am going to be doing—talking about Windows PowerShell 5.0 on Windows 10. And this brings me to Cool Stuff Week…<\/p>\n

What is so cool about PowerShell 5.0?<\/h2>\n

Well, first of all, what’s not cool? Pretty much nothing. I love it. When I install Windows 10, I have Windows PowerShell 5.0. As Teresa explained yesterday, the next step is to pin Windows PowerShell to the Start page and to the Taskbar (see Exploring Windows PowerShell 5.0<\/a>). I do this for the ISE and for the Windows PowerShell console.<\/p>\n

I am not going to enable scripting right now. I will do that later. For now, I am exploring. I also need to open Windows PowerShell as an Administrator and update Help. Teresa also talked about how to do that yesterday.<\/p>\n

The Clipboard<\/h3>\n

I will admit that when I first heard about Get-Clipboard<\/b> and Set-Clipboard<\/b>, I figured they would be pretty lame. I mean, I have been piping to Clip.exe for years. In addition to that, there are Clipboard cmdlets in the PowerShell Community Extension Project, so I figured this was just some low hanging fruit that was easy for the Windows PowerShell team to add.<\/p>\n

Really, though, it is pretty cool.<\/p>\n

First of all, I can pipe strings to Set-Clipboard<\/b> and then get it back via Get-Clipboard<\/b>. It works as expected.<\/p>\n

But, when I pipe a directory list to Set-Clipboard<\/b>, and then I use Get-Clipboard<\/b>, I don’t get anything back—until I specify the format I want as a FileDropList<\/b>. As shown here, I then get back a collection of objects:<\/p>\n

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Of course, it should come as no surprise that we have an object-oriented Clipboard. I mean, everything in Windows PowerShell is an object, so why not the Clipboard? This also means that I can index into the Clipboard, and return a FileInfo<\/b> object. This is shown here:<\/p>\n

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At this point, I am starting to think, “You have got to be kidding. Really? Objects on the Clipboard?” Dude, dude, dude."<\/p>\n

I know how to use objects and how to work with collections of objects. I mean, this is awesome stuff. I can grab only the base names from the collection of objects, or I can create a table with the base name and the last access time—all from the same Clipboard content. This is shown here:<\/p>\n

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So, yeah. The Clipboard cmdlets are cool. Way cool. And that is just two of the 1,285 Windows PowerShell cmdlets in Windows 10.<\/p>\n

That is just scratching the surface of Windows PowerShell 5.0. Join me tomorrow when I will talk about more cool stuff.<\/p>\n

I invite you to follow me on Twitter<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>. If you have any questions, send email to me at scripter@microsoft.com<\/a>, or post your questions on the Official Scripting Guys Forum<\/a>. See you tomorrow. Until then, peace.<\/p>\n

Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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