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.Synopsis

    Pipe PowerShell output to a temp file and open the file in Notepad or an editor of your choice.

.Description

    This function creates a temporary file from pipelined input and opens in in a text editor of

    your choice. The default is Notepad.exe but you can use -editor to specify the filename and path

    for any text editor. The temp file will be deleted after closing the text editor. If you want to

    save the output you'll need to give it a new name.

.Parameter InputObject

    Any pipelined input

.Parameter Editor

    The file name and path, if necessary, to any text editor of your choice. You can also use any

    command aliases that you have defined.

.Example

    PS C:\> ps | out-notepad

    Take the output from Get-Process and send it to Notepad.

.Example

    PS C:\> get-wmiobject win32_logicaldisk | Select * | out-notepad -editor nplus

    Output from the Get-WMIObject expression is sent to the temp file and opened with Notepad++

    which has been defined with an alias of nplus

.Inputs

    Accepts pipelined input

.Outputs

    None

.Link

http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog

.Link

   Out-File

   Out-Printer

   OUt-GridView

.Notes

 NAME:      Out-Notepad

 VERSION:   2.1

 AUTHOR:    Jeffery Hicks http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog

 LASTEDIT:  10/18/2009

  ****************************************************************

  * DO NOT USE IN A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT UNTIL YOU HAVE TESTED *

  * THOROUGHLY IN A LAB ENVIRONMENT. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.  IF   *

  * YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS SCRIPT DOES OR HOW IT WORKS, *

  * DO NOT USE IT OUTSIDE OF A SECURE, TEST ENVIRONMENT.         *

  ****************************************************************

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highlight comment blocks in PowerShell v2 scripts (ps1,psd1,psm1)

if ( ($_.Trim().startswith("<#") -AND ((Get-Item $filename).Extension -match "ps1|psd1|psm1")) -OR $blnCommentBlock) {

    #if the begin comment character is found turn "on" comment mode and treat

    #every subsequent line as a comment until a matching #> is found

    Write-Debug "Found a v2 comment block"

    Write-Debug "Setting blnCommentBlock to TRUE"

    Write-Debug "Setting isComment to TRUE"

    Write-Debug "Setting fcolor to $CommentColor"

    $blnCommentBlock=$True

    $isComment=$True

    $fcolor=$CommentColor

  }

if ($_.Trim().startswith("#>")) {

    Write-Debug "Found end of v2 comment block"

    Write-Debug "setting blnCommentblock to FALSE"

    $blnCommentBlock=$False

}

.Link

   http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/2009/10/more-fun-with-get-numberedcontent/

.Link

   Get-Content

   Write-Host