PowerTip of the Day, from PowerShell.com: This is a best-practice message: when you create your own function, here are some things you should consider: – Function name: use cmdlet naming syntax (Verb-Noun), and for verbs, stick to the list of approved verbs. For the noun part, use a meaningful English term, and use singular,… Continue reading Best Practice for PowerShell Functions
PowerTip of the Day, from PowerShell.com: In a previous tip you learned that using “more” to paginate output can be dangerous, and instead you should use Out-Host -Paging. To “update” more.com and make it behave like Out-Host with the -Paging parameter set, use a proxy function like this one: function more { param(… Continue reading Creating a “Better” More in PowerShell
In a previous tip you learned how to use clip.exe to send results to the clipboard. But what if you don’t have clip.exe (let’s say on Windows XP) or don’t want dependencies? Here’s a clever alternative: function Out-Clipboard { param( $text ) Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms $tb = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TextBox $tb.Multiline = $true if… Continue reading Sending Text to Clipboard Everywhere using Powershell
PowerTip of the Day, from PowerShell.com: What if you wanted to paste information from the clipboard? No sweat, here is a Get-Clipboard function that outputs any text held by the clipboard: function Get-Clipboard { Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms $tb = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TextBox $tb.Multiline = $true $tb.Paste() $tb.Text } In a previous tip we presented… Continue reading Reading the Clipboard using Powershell
PowerTip of the Day, from PowerShell.com: To convert a whole folder full of MS Word documents to PDF, here’s a function that might help: function Export-WordToPDF { param( [Parameter(Mandatory=$true,ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true)] [Alias(“FullName”)] $path, $pdfpath = $null) process { if (!$pdfpath) { $pdfpath = [System.IO.Path]::ChangeExtension($path, ‘.pdf’) }… Continue reading Bulk-Creating PDF Files from Word
PowerTip of the Day, from PowerShell.com: Creating Your Own Get-Driver Tool Some code snippets are really valuable, so you should turn them into functions to keep around as new PowerShell commands. Here’s a sample function: function Get-Driver { param( $Keyword = ‘*’ ) $col1 = @{Name=‘File Name’; Expression={ Split-Path… Continue reading Creating Your Own Get-Driver Tool using PowerShell
PowerTip of the Day, from PowerShell.com: If you want to capture PowerShell results in a text file, you can redirect the results or pipe them to Out-File. In any case, what you capture is the exact representation of what would have been displayed in your PowerShell console. So, depending on the amount of data,… Continue reading Outputting Text Reports without Truncating
