Because the PowerShell’s ConvertTo-Json produces non-deterministic indentation, the current answers will not produce JSON that has exactly two spaces for each depth in the data structure. To get each level of nested data indented exactly two spaces more than the enclosing level requires rebuilding the indentation. (For what it’s worth, looks like this was fixed … Read more
Once you assign the current datetime to a variable, you are capturing the date and time at the moment you ran Get-Date. Every time you want a new date and time, you need to run it again. You could avoid using a variable: Write-Output “Backups complete at $(Get-Date)”
Okay, found the answer @ https://www.codykonior.com/2013/10/17/checking-for-null-in-powershell/ Assuming: Param( [string] $stringParam = $null ) And the parameter was not specified (is using default value): # will NOT work if ($null -eq $stringParam) { } # WILL work: if ($stringParam -eq “” -and $stringParam -eq [String]::Empty) { } Alternatively, you can specify a special null type: Param( … Read more
As noted by @lytledw, Move-Item -Force works great for renaming and overwriting files. To replace the index. part of the name, you can use the -replace regex operator: Get-ChildItem index.*.txt |ForEach-Object { $NewName = $_.Name -replace “^(index\.)(.*)”,’$2′ $Destination = Join-Path -Path $_.Directory.FullName -ChildPath $NewName Move-Item -Path $_.FullName -Destination $Destination -Force }
This is somewhat awkward but the only way to do it as far as I know without doing something more complicated like using .NET’s WebRequest and ConvertFrom-Json (or whatever data format you are expecting). try { Invoke-RestMethod … your parameters here … } catch { # Dig into the exception to get the Response details. … Read more