{"id":75732,"date":"2015-12-24T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/12\/24\/powertip-convert-data-to-hexadecimal-output-in-powershell-5\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:20:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:20:33","slug":"powertip-convert-data-to-hexadecimal-output-in-powershell-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-convert-data-to-hexadecimal-output-in-powershell-5\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Convert Data to Hexadecimal Output in PowerShell 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Use the&nbsp;<b>Format-Hex<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet to produce hexadecimal output.<\/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 put data in a binary key in the registry?<\/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;In Windows PowerShell 5.0, you can use the&nbsp;<b>Format-Hex<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">&lsquo;This is meant to be binary&rsquo; | Format-Hex<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">$DataForRegistry=(&lsquo;This is meant to be binary&rsquo; | Format-Hex).Bytes<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use the&nbsp;Format-Hex&nbsp;cmdlet to produce hexadecimal output. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to put data in a binary key in the registry? &nbsp;In Windows PowerShell 5.0, you can use the&nbsp;Format-Hex&nbsp;cmdlet, for example: &lsquo;This is meant to be binary&rsquo; | Format-Hex $DataForRegistry=(&lsquo;This is meant to be binary&rsquo; | Format-Hex).Bytes<\/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":[56,356,154,45],"class_list":["post-75732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use the&nbsp;Format-Hex&nbsp;cmdlet to produce hexadecimal output. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to put data in a binary key in the registry? &nbsp;In Windows PowerShell 5.0, you can use the&nbsp;Format-Hex&nbsp;cmdlet, for example: &lsquo;This is meant to be binary&rsquo; | Format-Hex $DataForRegistry=(&lsquo;This is meant to be binary&rsquo; | Format-Hex).Bytes<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75732","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=75732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75732\/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=75732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}