Month: May 2015

To display text information, you can of course launch notepad.exe, and use the editor to display the text. Displaying text in an editor is not such...

If your script takes some time to complete, you may want to play a system sound file. Here is a sample illustrating how this can be done: # find...

Many file extensions are associated with executables. You can then use Invoke-Item to open a document with this executable. Finding out just which...

To split a text at each uppercase letter, without having to provide a list of uppercase characters, try this example: $text =...

If you'd like to find uppercase characters, you could use regular expressions. However, you would then provide a list of uppercase characters to...

In a previous tip you have seen that the PowerShell console supports all characters available in a TrueType font. You just need to convert the...

Did you know that console output can contain special icons like checkmarks? All you need to do is set the console to a TrueType font like...

When you call a function, PowerShell increases the nest level. When a function calls another function, or script, this will again increase the nest...

Sometimes you might want to abort a pipeline when a certain condition is met. Here is a creative way of doing this. It works all the way back to...

When you use the "Continue" statement inside a loop, you can skip the remainder of this loop iteration, and continue with the next....

To get a rough understanding how much memory a script takes, or how much memory PowerShell puts aside when you store results in a variable, here is...