Last week I posted a Friday Fun article on parsing results from Invoke-Webrequest and displaying matching strings in color so that the book titles I’m interested in stand out. But the more I thought about it I realized I should take this a step further. The problem with Write-Host is that it doesn’t write anything…
Tag: Invoke-Expression
Get File Utilization by Extension
In the past I’ve posted a few PowerShell functions that provide all types of file and folder information. The other day I had a reason to revisit one of them and I spent a little time revising and expanding. This new function, Get-Extension will search a given folder and create a custom object for each…
Get WMI Namespace
PowerShell and WMI just seem to go together like peanut butter and jelly, beer and pretzels, or salt and pepper. However, discovering things about WMI isn’t always so easy. There are plenty of tools and scripts that will help you uncover WMI goodness, but here’s another one anyway. Today’s PowerShell function will get all namespaces…