Pretty grid $colors = [enum]::GetValues([System.ConsoleColor]) Foreach ($bgcolor in $colors){ Foreach ($fgcolor in $colors) { Write-Host “$fgcolor|” -ForegroundColor $fgcolor -BackgroundColor $bgcolor -NoNewLine } Write-Host ” on $bgcolor” } Updated colours in newer powershell: https://gist.github.com/timabell/cc9ca76964b59b2a54e91bda3665499e
In search of this same solution, I found what I needed under a different question in stackoverflow: Powershell-log-off-remote-session. The below one line will return a list of logged on users. query user /server:$SERVER
I created a small function to handle Microsoft’s XML Document Transform in PowerShell. I copied the Microsoft.Web.XmlTransform.dll file from Visual Studio build folder to my script’s path, but you can reference it from the source folder if you’d like. function XmlDocTransform($xml, $xdt) { if (!$xml -or !(Test-Path -path $xml -PathType Leaf)) { throw “File not … Read more
In order to append to a file you’ll need to use a slightly different approach. You can still redirect an individual process’ standard error and standard output to a file, but in order to append it to a file you’ll need to do one of these things: Read the stdout/stderr file contents created by Start-Process … Read more
The variables declared in Variables.ps1 are at “Script Scope”. That is you can not see them outside of the scope of the script that declares them. One way to bring the variables in Variables.ps1 to the scope of main.ps1 is to “dot source” Variables.ps1. This, in effect, runs Variables.ps1 at the scope of main.ps1. To … Read more
Look closely at the two dashes in unzipRelease –Src ‘$ReleaseFile’ -Dst ‘$Destination’ This first one is not a normal dash but an en-dash (– in HTML). Replace that with the dash found before Dst.
I think you’ll need to resort to WMI: Get-WmiObject win32_service | ?{$_.Name -like ‘*sql*’} | select Name, DisplayName, State, PathName Update If you want to perform some manipulation on the selected data, you can use calculated properties as described here. For example if you just wanted the text within quotes for the Pathname, you could … Read more
try this: powershell “C:\Dummy Directory 1\Foo.ps1 ‘C:\Dummy Directory 2\File.txt'”
You first have to ‘dot’ source the script, so for you : . .\Get-NetworkStatistics.ps1 The first ‘dot’ asks PowerShell to load the script file into your PowerShell environment, not to start it. You should also use set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted or set-ExecutionPolicy AllSigned see(the Execution Policy instructions).
The Resolve-Path cmdlet has a -Relative parameter that will return a path relative to the current directory: Set-Location C:\MyScript $relativePath = Get-Item Data\Test.txt | Resolve-Path -Relative