Last week I shared a script for finding recently modified files in a given directory. In fact, it wouldn’t be that difficult to find the last files I was working on and open them in the PowerShell ISE. Assuming my Get-RecentFile function is loaded it is a simple as this: get-recentfile -Days 4 -Newest 2…
Category: Scripting
Friday Fun: Get Recent Files
As you might imagine, I work on a lot of different files throughout the week. Sometimes it is hard to keep everything straight. I’ll want to return to script I was working on yesterday, but I can’t remember what I called it. So I spend a few minutes searching and filtering until I find it….
A PowerShell Weather Service
I’ve been having some fun this week sharing a few tools for getting weather information and forecasts using PowerShell. To complete the story, today I have one more technique. Using PowerShell, you can query a web service for weather information. In simple terms a web service is like an application you can “run” via a…
Getting the Weather Where On Earth
Yesterday I posted a popular article about using Invoke-WebRequest to get weather conditions. That function used the Yahoo web site but really only worked for US cities. So I also cleaned up and revised another set of advanced PowerShell functions (required PowerShell 3) that can retrieve weather information for probably any location on Earth. The…
Baby, It’s Cold Outside
I don’t know about your neck of the woods, but it is downright Arctic here. So I thought I’d polish up my PowerShell function to get weather data. #requires -version 3.0 Function Get-MyWeather { <# .Synopsis Get the weather for a US zip code .Description This command will query the Yahoo weather service and return…
Friday the 13th Fun
It is that time of year again. But instead of being freaked out by Friday the 13th, let’s have a little fun. Here is a collection of PowerShell one-liners, all celebrating 13. And maybe you’ll even pick up something new about PowerShell.
Friday Fun: Search Me
I’ve been working on a few revisions and additions to my ISE Scripting Geek module. Even though what I’m about to show you will eventually be available in a future release of that module, I thought I’d share it with you today. One of the things I wanted to be able to do was search…
Friday Fun: Updated ISE Scripting Geek Module
A few years ago I published a module with a number of functions and enhancements for the PowerShell ISE. This ISEScriptingGeek module has remained popular over the last few years. But I wrote it for PowerShell v2. I have also come up with a number of new additions to the ISE that I use to…
Friday Fun: Another Christmas Prompt
In last week’s Friday Fun post, I shared with you a PowerShell prompt that would display a festive Christmas countdown clock. This week I have another holiday related prompt function. This one is pretty straight forward and is not that much different from the default PowerShell prompt function. Function Prompt { #only change background color…
Friday Fun: I’m with the band.
I like to have fun with PowerShell, as is hopefully evident with this Friday Fun serious, and today that is especially true. Perhaps you need a quick break from the end of the week grind. Or maybe you want to learn something new about PowerShell. Hopefully today’s fun will meet both requirements. Today’s fun will…
Scary PowerShell
In honor of today’s festivities, at least in the United States, I thought we’d look at some scary PowerShell. I have seen a lot of scary things in blog posts, tweets and forum discussions. Often these scary things are from people just getting started with PowerShell who simply haven’t learned enough yet to know better….
PowerShell Dates, Times and Formats
If you are like me you use date time values constantly in PowerShell. From simply displaying the current date and time in progress message to using different values to create file or folder names. The Get-Date cmdlet has a -Format parameter which you can use. The tricky part is remembering what values to specify. Especially…
Friday Fun – Let’s Play a Game
Today is going to be a lot of fun. A few years ago, back when we were still running PowerShell 2.0 everywhere, I created a module to run a Bingo game in a PowerShell session. I primarily wrote the module as a learning tool for beginners wanting to know more about how to construct a…
The Altaro PowerShell Hyper-V Cookbook
For awhile now I’ve been contributing to the Altaro Hyper-V blog. Many of my articles centered on managing Hyper-V with PowerShell. I’ve gone through my library of management tools and written an eBook around them. All of the PowerShell scripts and functions have been polished up a bit. The eBook briefly discusses how to you…
Sorting Hash Tables
Over the weekend I received a nice comment from a reader who came across an old post of mine on turning an object into a hash table. He wanted to add a comment but my blog closes comments after a period of time. But I thought it was worth sharing, especially for those of you…