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PowerShell PowerTip: What is the point of Out-Variable?

July 24, 2018 Jul 24, 2018 07/24/18

A lot of times people see others using the common parameter -OutVariable instead of the best practice $var = <value>. This leads to a lot of folks wondering why OutVariable exists. The real use for OutVariable is to save your data off, while still letting it get sent along the output stream. What this means is that you could use it...

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PowerShell PowerTip: searching and installing modules on the command line

August 21, 2018 Aug 21, 2018 08/21/18

Kory Thacher

PowerShell 5+ ships with the module PowerShellGet, which lets us search and install modules from cmdlets. The default nuget repository is the PowerShell Gallery, but you could add others yourself (including custom ones for internal modules). There are a lot of reasons this could help you: There are a lot of cmdlets in the module, ...

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PowerShell PowerTip: History of commands with PSReadline

August 7, 2018 Aug 7, 2018 08/7/18

Kory Thacher

One of the really cool things PSReadline provides (module shipping on v5+) isn't as immediately obvious as the syntax highlighting. It offers a persistent history that is stored from session to session. This means if you run commands in a window, close it, and open a new one later you can still hit the up arrow and scroll through them. I ...

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PowerShell PowerTip: Customizing your prompt

November 13, 2018 Nov 13, 2018 11/13/18

Kory Thacher

I've been taking a break from the blog for a while due to some personal reasons, but I had a few people ask me about my PowerShell prompt recently. (image) I like extra horizontal space, so I removed the path from the prompt and put it in the window title bar. I also just display the current time in the prompt ...

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Regular Expressions (REGEX): Basic symbols

July 31, 2018 Jul 31, 2018 07/31/18

Kory Thacher

Welcome back to the RegEx guide. Last post we talked a little bit about the basics of RegEx and its uses. I mentioned the most important thing is to understand the symbols. Today we'll ease in with some of the basics to get us going, but later we will expand on these and see some other options we have. is used to represent any single ...

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PowerShell PowerTip: What you should know about streams

July 10, 2018 Jul 10, 2018 07/10/18

Kory Thacher

PowerShell has a concept called Streams, which are the different places data can go (output, error, verbose, etc). You usually don't have to worry too much about these streams if you're just writing simple scripts, but it helps a ton to know: What this means for you, as users, is that you can get a non-terminating error, and ...

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PowerShell PowerTip: Grabbing the location your script lives in

June 12, 2018 Jun 12, 2018 06/12/18

Kory Thacher

One super common thing in PowerShell is to design a script to consume particular files for data. Often times you are building the script right in the folder for your files. However, it can be annoying to give long, literal file paths to a file. Also, if you give that script to someone else, they need to edit that path to point at the right ...

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PowerShell PowerTip: Checking your PowerShell version

June 26, 2018 Jun 26, 2018 06/26/18

Kory Thacher

If there is one question I could say I get the most in PowerShell, it is: How do I check my version? Its not a hard thing, but its not an obvious thing. We can actually check our version with a build in variable called PSVersionTable Hope that helps, tune in more often to get short and sweet PowerTips...

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Regular Expressions (REGEX): Grouping & [RegEx]

August 14, 2018 Aug 14, 2018 08/14/18

Kory Thacher

Welcome back to the RegEx crash course. Last time we talked about the basic symbols we plan to use as our foundation. This week, we will be learning a new way to leverage our patterns for data extraction and how to rip our extracted data into pieces we care about. [RegEx] The data type has some cool static members, but we're mostly going...

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PowerShell for Programmers: A Quick Start Guide

January 4, 2018 Jan 4, 2018 01/4/18

Kory Thacher

Now that my content has been migrated to the scripting blog, this will be the landing page for the series and I'll be trying to update all the links. Learning PowerShell can be very useful for people with programming experience. Whether you’re currently a developer, dev-ops, or an admin you can get some serious use out of being familiar...

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PowerShell PowerTip: What is the point of Out-Variable?

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Regular Expressions (REGEX): Basic symbols

PowerShell PowerTip: What you should know about streams

PowerShell PowerTip: Grabbing the location your script lives in

PowerShell PowerTip: Checking your PowerShell version

Regular Expressions (REGEX): Grouping & [RegEx]

PowerShell for Programmers: A Quick Start Guide