PSA: There is a known issue that keeps old copies of classes in memory. It makes working with classes really confusing if you don’t know about it. You can read about it here. using is Prone to Pitfalls The using keyword is prone to various pitfalls as follows: The using statement does not work for … Read more
The Write-* cmdlets allow you to channel the output of your PowerShell code in a structured way, so you can easily distinguish messages of different severity from each other. Write-Host: display messages to an interactive user on the console. Unlike the other Write-* cmdlets this one is neither suitable nor intended for automation/redirection purposes. Not … Read more
The problem could be that your existing PowerShell session is “locking” the module by loading possible elements from it (such as global variables or constants) even though you are trying to unload it (Remove-Module). The cleanest way to be sure it isn’t locked is to exit the PowerShell session. If you need to keep the … Read more
tl;dr (PSv5+; see bottom for older versions): (Get-Content webtemp.config) -replace ‘database=myDb;’, ‘database=newDb;’ -join “`n” | Set-Content -NoNewline -Force web1.config Note: Replace “`n” with “`r`n” if you want Windows-style CRLF line endings rather than Unix-style LF-only line endings (PowerShell and many utilities can handle both). In PSv5+, Set-Content supports the -NoNewline switch, which instructs Set-Content not … Read more
PowerShell 3.0+ In PowerShell 3.0 and higher (see: Determine installed PowerShell version) you can use the ConvertFrom-Json cmdlet to convert a JSON string into a PowerShell data structure. That’s convenient and unfortunate at the same time – convenient, because it’s very easy to consume JSON, unfortunate because ConvertFrom-Json gives you PSCustomObjects, and they are hard … Read more
Select-String is doing what you told it to. Emphasis mine. The Select-String cmdlet searches for text and text patterns in input strings and files. So if you are just looking to match with file names just use -Filter of Get-ChildItem or post process with Where-Object Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Recurse -Filter “*sample*” That should return all … Read more
You should be able to do the following: $params = @{“@type”=”login”; “username”=”xxx@gmail.com”; “password”=”yyy”; } Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://foobar.com/endpoint -Method POST -Body $params This will send the post as the body. However – if you want to post this as a Json you might want to be explicit. To post this as a JSON you can specify … Read more
As suggested by wOxxOm, you can try pass the -Force flag: Import-Module … -Force Or if that does not work try to explicitly remove it and then reimport with: Remove-Module