If you use Start-Process, you create a new child process that has your powershell session as its parent process. If you kill the powershell parent process that starts this, the new process will be orphaned and keep running. It will, however, not survive if you kill the parent’s process tree Start-Process -FilePath notepad.exe Powershell cannot … Read more
Basically the answer is that it is how Unix has done it forever. Sure enough, if you write some Bash scripts that’s what you’ll use and it’s actually nice to have your PowerShell syntax knowledge transfer over one for one to Bash. It is answered in detail in Bruce Payette’s Windows PowerShell in Action, Second … Read more
You are running into a dynamic scoping issue. See about_scopes. Inside the function $incre is not defined so it is copied from the global scope. The global $incre is not modified. If you wish to modify it you can do the following. $incre = 0 function comparethis() { #Do this comparison $global:incre++ Write-Host $global:incre } … Read more
For the $replacement variable, you don’t really need to specify the type [string], PowerShell will infer that from the assignment. For the $template variable, [string] is actually wrong. By default, Get-Content will give you an array of strings (i.e. lines) instead of one string. But in fact you don’t even want to split the input … Read more
The following seems to work If (Test-Path Alias:wget) {Remove-Item Alias:wget} If (Test-Path Alias:wget) {Remove-Item Alias:wget} wget The first line removes the Script level alias, and the second removes the Global level alias. Note that both need to be tested, because if the Global doesn’t exist the Script isn’t created. Also this misbehaves in that it … Read more
You have to assign the certifcate to a specific site. You can retrieve the binding information of your site using the Get-WebBinding cmdlet and set the SSL Certificate using the AddSslCertificate function: $siteName=”mywebsite” $dnsName=”www.mywebsite.ru” # create the ssl certificate $newCert = New-SelfSignedCertificate -DnsName $dnsName -CertStoreLocation cert:\LocalMachine\My # get the web binding of the site $binding … Read more
You can do the following to start your application pool : Invoke-Command -ComputerName “REMOTE_SERVER” -ScriptBlock { Start-WebAppPool -Name “MY_FANCY_APPPOOL” } You can do the following to stop your application pool : Invoke-Command -ComputerName “REMOTE_SERVER” -ScriptBlock { Stop-WebAppPool -Name “MY_FANCY_APPPOOL” }
If you add -Force to your command it will overwrite the existing files and you won’t see the error. -Recurse will replace all items within each folder and all subfolders. Copy-Item “C:\realFolder\*” “C:\realFolder_new” -Recurse -Force
OK, I’m not going to code the whole thing for you (what’s the fun in that?) but I’ll get you started. First, there are two ways to do the content comparison. The lazy/mostly right way, which is comparing the length of the files; and the accurate but more involved way, which is comparing a hash … Read more