You can change the pipeline thread’s CurrrentUICulture like so: [Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture=”fr-FR”; Get-Help Get-Process I’m on an English system but before I executed the line above, I updated help like so: Update-Help -UICulture fr-FR With that, the Get-Help call above gave me French help on my English system. Note: if I put the call to Get-Help on … Read more
Use Get-Command Start-Transcript | fl * to find information about the command.
There should be an -TimeoutSec parameter you can feed an integer value to when calling the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet. Invoke-WebRequest https://www.example.com/longrunningtask -TimeoutSec 60
The $FormatEnumerationLimit preference variable doesn’t apply here, because its purpose is to determine how many elements of a collection-valued property to display (e.g, $FormatEnumerationLimit = 2; [pscustomobject] @{ prop = 1, 2, 3 } prints (at most) 2 elements from .prop‘s value and hints at the existence of more with …; e.g., {1, 2…}). Instead, … Read more
Solution was to run PowerShell as an administrator. Stop-Service worked ok after doing that.
This will give you what you want: $strArray = $ms | Foreach {“$($_.Option)$($_.Title)”} Select-Object is kind of like an SQL SELECT. It projects the selected properties onto a new object (pscustomobject in v1/v2 and Selected.<orignalTypeName> in V3). Your second approach doesn’t work, because $_.Option in a string will only “interpolate” the variable $_. It won’t … Read more
tl;dr The question is about clearing both the screen and the scrollback buffer in the integrated terminal of Visual Studio Code, and the next section addresses that. Update: While the commands built into the shells used to not clear the scrollback buffer too, as of Visual Studio Code v1.86 they do – see the last … Read more
Even though you have already posted your own answer, here is a variation: dir Leaflets -r | % { if ($_.Name -cne $_.Name.ToLower()) { ren $_.FullName $_.Name.ToLower() } } Some points: dir is an alias for Get-ChildItem (and -r is short for -Recurse). % is an alias for ForEach-Object. -cne is a case-sensitive comparison. -ne … Read more
Set the type of your parameter to [switch], e.g. param ( [switch]$lastmonth ); EDIT: Note that the variable will be a boolean. You can test it like: if ($lastMonth) { Write-Host “lastMonth is set.” } else { Write-Host “lastMonth is not set.” } (thanks Chris)
Shortest Version I could came up with: if (!($value = Read-Host “Value [$default]”)) { $value = $default } This version doesn’t have to use else.