How To Replace Text in a File with PowerShell
Aug 8, 2018 · To perform a find/replace in a text file, it's much easier to return the contents via single string. We'll add the Raw parameter to do that. PS C:\> Get-Content -path C:\ReplaceDemo.txt -Raw. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. Next, we'll have to figure out a way to find and replace the string "brown" in memory.
How To Transfer Files via SCP with PowerShell
Jul 19, 2018 · By using a free community module called Posh-SSH, we can transfer files via SCP just as quickly as we can with Copy-Item. The module we need to use is called Posh-SSH. This module is available on the PowerShell Gallery and can be installed by running Install-Module -Name Posh-SSH. Once installed, you should have a few dozen different commands ...
How To Work with Environment Variables in PowerShell
Mar 28, 2019 · Windows environment variables give system administrators access to a plethora of information about the Windows operating system. Separated into system and user-level scopes, default environment variables can be read and modified, and new environment variables can be …
How To Display GUI Message Boxes in PowerShell
Jun 9, 2016 · For example, in its simplest form, you can use the Show () method to display a simple message. [System.Windows.MessageBox]::Show('Hello') Figure 1. You'll notice when the message box comes up, it will halt your console input until it's closed. When you click OK, the console will then show you what the Show () method returned, which, in this ...
Building a Wait-Action Function in PowerShell
Mar 16, 2018 · Creating a Wait-Action function in PowerShell consists of the code to check the status of the task, a while loop and a timer. Using the while loop, we'll continually run the code to check the status of the task; and to be sure we don't get stuck in an infinite loop, we'll set a timer ahead of time and ensure the process times out after a fixed ...
Exploring Dot-Sourcing in PowerShell -- Microsoft Certified ...
Feb 2, 2017 · Dot-sourcing is a concept in PowerShell that allows you to reference code defined in one script in a separate one. This is useful when you're working on a project with multiple scripts and might have functions specified in one script (s) and the code to call those functions in another. Other than building a module, dot-sourcing is a good way to ...
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How To Save and Read Sensitive Data with PowerShell
Jul 20, 2017 · About the Author. Adam Bertram is a 20-year veteran of IT. He's an automation engineer, blogger, consultant, freelance writer, Pluralsight course author and content marketing advisor to multiple technology companies.
Understanding Background Jobs in PowerShell -- Microsoft …
Apr 18, 2018 · In PowerShell, a job is a piece of code that is executed in the background. It's code that starts but then immediately returns control to PowerShell to continue processing other code. Jobs are great for performance and when a script doesn't depend on …
Using a Stopwatch In PowerShell -- Microsoft Certified …
Oct 19, 2017 · About the Author. Adam Bertram is a 20-year veteran of IT. He's an automation engineer, blogger, consultant, freelance writer, Pluralsight course author and content marketing advisor to multiple technology companies.