Tips and Tricks

Better Restart-Computer cmdlet in PowerShell 3.0

Vinith Menon
5 Min To Read
27 Nov, 2012
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As the name suggests the Restart-Computer cmdlet helps in restarting the operating system on the local and remote computers. Compared to earlier version of Restart-Computer in PowerShell 2.

#PSTip Duplicating folder structures

Shay Levy
1 Min To Read
26 Nov, 2012
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Sometimes you need to create a copy of an exiting directory structure without copying the files, and you also want to include empty folders if they exist.

#PSTip Create an empty folder structure

Ravikanth C
1 Min To Read
23 Nov, 2012
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Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. In an earlier tip, you saw how an empty file of a specified size can be created.

#PSTip Create a file of the specified size

Shay Levy
1 Min To Read
22 Nov, 2012
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Sometimes you need to create a file of the specified size, as a placeholder for instance. There are many utilities that do that (e.

#PSTip ForEach-Object Gotcha!

Ravikanth C
2 Min To Read
21 Nov, 2012
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Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. Let’s say you want to rename a bunch of files in a folder and imagine that you used the following code:

#PSTip PowerShell and the pre-configured user agent strings

Aleksandar Nikolic
1 Min To Read
20 Nov, 2012
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Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. The Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod cmdlets have the -UserAgent parameter, so you can specify a user agent string for the web request.

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