I’ve been using VBScript for a very long time. One drawback it has always had as a scripting language is an INCLUDE statement. In other languages you can use something like INCLUDE scriptfile at the beginning of the script. This…
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I’m very happy to see more and more people getting their hands dirty with Windows PowerShell. A common challenge I see across different support forums is getting information from one part of a script to another. Very often the user…
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One of my favorite features in PowerShell v2.0 is the ability to add help scripts and functions. The help system with cmdlets is terrific. Type help and the name of a cmdlet and you get syntax, parameters, a description and…
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A few days ago I went over the PowerShell oneliner from SAPIEN’s March ’09 newsletter. I suggested using it in a scriptblock to save typing. Another possibility is to turn it into a function. Even better would be a function…
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PowerShell’s [DATETIME] object has some handy methods for calculating a date such as AddDays().
PS C:\> get-date
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 4:11:18 PM
PS C:\> (get-date).AddDays(23)
Friday, September 26, 2008 4:11:34 PM
PS C:\>
You can even subtract by adding…
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