Using Bitwise Shift Operators

by Aug 22, 2013

PowerShell 3.0 introduces two new operators to bitwise shift. You can use these, for example, to convert GB to MB or KB to GB:

-shr 10 basically does the same as dividing by 1024, whereas -shr 20 divides by 1MB. Likewise, -shl does the opposite.

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