Did you know that every PowerShell function can be turned into a script module with just one line of code? To test drive this, open the ISE editor...
Month: December 2012
MONyog MySQL Monitor 5.56 Has Been Released
Changes (as compared to 5.55) include: Bug fixes: * Fixed a memory leak when reading MySQL server logs through SFTP. * Fixed a multi-threading issue...
Ripping All Links from a Website
PowerShell 3.0 comes with a great new cmdlet: Invoke-WebRequest! You can use it for a zillion things, but it can also simply retrieve the content of...
Splitting Hexadecimal Pairs
If you'd have to process a long list of encoded information, let's say a list of hexadecimal values, how would you split the list into pairs...
Splitting Texts without Losing Anything
Typically when you split a text using the -split operator or the Split() method, the split character is removed from the text: $profile -split...
Cutting Off Text at the End
Cutting off a part of a text at its beginning is easy. This line eats the first 3 characters: PS> 'C:\folder\file.txt'.SubString(3)...
Use Comparison Operators for Logfile Parsing
Comparison operators usually return either $true or $false, but when applied to an array, return the array elements that match the comparison. You...
Use -f with N0
Often, it is necessary to output numbers, but you may want to control the number of digits and would like to control the formatting. The -f operator...
Sending Results to Excel
Here's a little function called Out-ExcelReport. Just pipe anything to it, and it will open in Microsoft Excel - provided it is installed on...
Unix Log Scanner
After the installation of the Unix Log Scanner using the uptime plugin manager I try to create a service monitor. But every time I run the test I...
Christmas Offer – 25% flat discount on all products!
We are really getting into the Christmas spirit this year, so we are offering 25% flat discount on all your purchases in the run-up to the big day....
Colors Become Even More Important in the New ISE Editor
When you type in code into the new PowerShell 3.0 ISE editor, your code is not just "colorful". You may know that each color stands for a...
MONyog MySQL Monitor 5.55 Has Been Released
Changes (as compared to 5.54) include: Bug fixes: * In the replication page a slave was not displaying indented compared to its master as it should...
Controlling Process Priority and Processor Affinity
When you get yourself a process using Get-Process, what you get back is an object that has useful methods and writeable properties. This line will...
Executing Elevated PowerShell Code
Sometimes, a script may want to execute some portion of its code elevated, for example to write to HKLM in the Registry or change protected...
Examine Parameter Binding
PowerShell caters all tastes which is why the next two lines do the exact same thing and get all JPG pictures from your Windows folder: PS>...
Show-Command Creates PowerShell-Code for You
In PowerShell 3.0, there is a cool new cmdlet called Show-Command: PS> Show-Command Get-Process It works both in the console and the ISE editor,...
Blocking Interactive Console Apps in the ISE editor
The ISE editor in PowerShell 3.0 seems to have an interactive console, but it really isn't. It is just a simulated console. So any command that...
Multiline-Input in ISE Editor
If you'd like to enter long lines of code into the console panel in the new PowerShell 3.0 ISE, you can press SHIFT+ENTER. This will add a line...
XE3 Visual LiveBindings: User defined objects
The adapter components TListBindSourceAdapter and TObjectBindSourceAdapter enable LiveBindings with user defined TObjects. Here is a user defined...
Kindergarten-Mode
To protect you from damages while playing with PowerShell on a productive system, set the ”WhatIf” mode as default:...
Combining Objects
Sometimes it becomes necessary to consolidate two or more objects into one. So, how would you combine object properties into one object? In a...
Using CIM Cmdlets Against PowerShell 2.0
As you may have read, in PowerShell 3.0, there is a new family of cmdlets designed to improve the way we work with WMI. The powerful Get-WmiObject...
Finding Newest or Oldest Files
In PowerShell 3.0, Measure-Object can be applied not just to numeric data but to anything that is comparable. In PowerShell 2.0, this line would...