Tips and Tricks

#PSTip Using Tab completion against the command history

Shay Levy
1 Min To Read
11 Jul, 2013
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. Each time you execute a command in Windows PowerShell, the command is remembered and can be fetched by using the Get-History cmdlet or by using the the up/down arrow keys.

#PSTip A Faster way to open specific Event Logs

Shay Levy
3 Min To Read
10 Jul, 2013
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. One of the annoyances I’m facing when working with Event logs is navigating and finding a log that is buried a few levels down the logs tree.

#PSTip How to check if a DateTime string is in a specific pattern

Shay Levy
2 Min To Read
09 Jul, 2013
- Tips and tricks

You want to be able to check and allow only date and time strings that are in a specific date time format pattern.

#PSTip Converting a String to a System.DateTime object

Jakub Jareš
2 Min To Read
08 Jul, 2013
- Tips and tricks

In a perfect world all date and time data available are represented by System.DateTime objects. In the real world we are usually not that lucky.

#PSTip PowerShell 4 – Filtering a collection by using a method syntax

Shay Levy
2 Min To Read
05 Jul, 2013
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. One of the new features introduced in PowerShell 4.0 is the collection filtering by using a method syntax.

#PSTip Inserting characters at a specified string index position

Shay Levy
1 Min To Read
04 Jul, 2013
- Tips and tricks

How do you turn ‘20130701’ to ‘2013-07-01’? There are many ways to tackle this, breaking it into pieces (substring) and joining it back with a dash, use some regex fu to manipulate it, parse it as a DateTime and format it and so on.

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