Tips and Tricks

#PSTip Get old files based on LastWriteTime

Shay Levy
1 Min To Read
05 Oct, 2012
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Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 and above There are many ways to get the age of a file. The most common way is to subtract the file’s LastWriteTime from the current time:

#PSTip Working with DateTime objects in PowerShell using [System.DateTime]

Jaap Brasser
1 Min To Read
04 Oct, 2012
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When working with dates in PowerShell it is often useful to leverage the .NET Framework System.DateTime class. For example to display the current date and time the Now method can be used:

#PSTip Find all PowerShell Profiles from $PROFILE

Shay Levy
1 Min To Read
03 Oct, 2012
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Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 and above I have always wanted to see what all PowerShell profiles are defined and in-use on a system.

#PSTip Displaying all possible combinations of a flagged enumeration

Ravikanth C
1 Min To Read
02 Oct, 2012
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In the last tip, I showed you how to create an enumeration object on which we can do bitwise operations to derive combinational values.

#PSTip Creating flagged enumerations in PowerShell

Ravikanth C
2 Min To Read
01 Oct, 2012
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At times, we may want to create an enumeration object in which a combination of different constants means different values or descriptions.

#PSTip Cmdlet Discovery and Module auto-loading

Shay Levy
1 Min To Read
27 Sep, 2012
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In PowerShell 3.0, we no longer have to import modules manually to use cmdlets. When we run a cmdlet, Windows PowerShell imports the module that contains the command automatically.

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