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Summary : Create a Windows PowerShell function that accepts pipelined input and creates a variable length underline that uses various characters. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. One of the things I really enjoy doing is reading the comments that are posted by various people on the Hey...

Summary : Microsoft PowerShell MVP, Sean Kearney, shows how to use Windows PowerShell string techniques to create user names for Active Directory. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. It is time for PowerShell in Blueville Part 3 with Honorary Scripting Guy and Windows PowerShell MVP, Sean...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell parameter attributes to avoid input errors in a function. Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. This week is great. The Scripting Wife and I are enjoying meeting Windows PowerShell luminaries. I am working with a group of IT pros to help them to learn Windows PowerShell...

Summary: Learn Windows PowerShell cmdlet names by taking the Dr. Scripto Challenge. Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. The Scripting Wife and I are on a road trip in Canada. We had a wonderful time in Toronto with Windows PowerShell MVP Sean Kearney. Now we are heading to Ottawa where we plan to...

Summary : Learn two simple Windows PowerShell methods to remove the last letter of a string. Hey, Scripting Guy! I have, what should be a simple question. I need to be able to remove only the last character from a string. For example, if I have a string the scripts , I want the string to be the...

Summary : Superhero BATCHman defeats evil Hextor and converts hexadecimal to ASCII to retrieve passwords. Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Sean Kearney is back again, and this time he delivers Episode 7 of the BATCHman series. Whenever trouble happens in systems and people will...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson discusses four different techniques for using Windows PowerShell to convert date formats. Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a problem. Although I am sure you hear this a lot, this problem is causing me a major problem at work. Here is the deal. We are a large...

Summary : Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to search a folder for matching strings and to open them automatically in Notepad. Hey, Scripting Guy! I have been enjoying using the Select-String cmdlet, but I have a question. When I use Select-String , it lists the file that it finds the match in...

Summary : Learn how to use a Windows PowerShell command to search easily for information in a collection of files. Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to be able to parse multiple files for text that are in a single folder. I hate to have to write a script for such a common task, but I am afraid I will...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use the Windows PowerShell tokenizer to parse text and identify commands. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. There are still five days for you to submit your entries for the 2011 Scripting Games. Events 1 through 5 are in the bag, but...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson teaches how to use .NET Framework string methods from within Windows PowerShell, Hey, Scripting Guy! There are many things I need to do with strings and with text files that do not seem to be supported with Windows PowerShell. It is strange, but many common...

Summary: Learn how to use .NET Framework classes to work with strings in Windows PowerShell in this Scripting Guys how-to post. Hey, Scripting Guy! I have been writing VBScript code for years. One thing I really liked about VBScript was the large number of functions that manipulated strings. I...

Summary : Use Windows PowerShell to retrieve the power plan settings for your computer. The Microsoft Scripting Guys show you how. Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to have a way to easily retrieve the power plan settings for the active power plan on my computer. I would like to have an easy to read display...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to be able to write double quotation marks to a text file using Windows PowerShell . I know that in VBScript it was really annoying to do this because the quotation marks ended up getting confused with the quotation mark that was used to indicate the start of a string; when...

  Hey, Scripting Guy! Is it possible to use Windows PowerShell to groom a text file by deleting extra returns and line feeds it may contain? Here is the deal. I have a file that we need to download each day. This file contains updated prices for commodities used in our manufacturing operation. We...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have been using AuditPol.exe to verify the audit policy that is configured on our network. The problem is that the report that is generated has a lot of text, and it is not easy to see exactly what is being audited or not. Is it possible to use Windows PowerShell 2.0 to parse the...

Q: Hey Scripting Guy! I need to migrate a VBScript to Windows PowerShell 2.0 that I use to parse a log file for errors that occur during a specific operation. I am only interested in the errors, not the success statements. Because this log has a tendency to grow rather large, I would like to write the...

Q: Hey Scripting Guy! I need to convert a VBScript into Windows PowerShell 2.0. The script reads the first line of all text files that are in a particular folder, and if a specific word is in that file, it moves the text file to an archive folder. -- AO A: Hello AO, Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson...

Q: Hey Scripting Guy! I need help migrating a script from VBScript to Windows PowerShell 2.0. The VBScript is one that I based upon an old Hey Scripting Guy! article. I use it to search a text file for specific words. If the words are found, the script displays a message stating this fact. I do not want...

    Hey, Scripting Guy! I am trying to learn Windows PowerShell 2.0, but I am having some issues when it comes to string manipulation. I have been a faithful reader of the Scripting Guys for several years, and I have found many of the scripts to be critical in my business environment. I wish...

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Share this post: Hey, Scripting Guy! We have a number of files that were manually created by various people in a common folder. Unfortunately, they did not follow a specific naming convention as well as they should, and as a result they do not sort very well. Some people preceded the file names with...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I create a file name from the date? I have this application that creates a log file, and every hour I would like to save that log file as a file whose name is generated from the current time stamp. Can this be done? - RH Hi RH, Ever since I read your e-mail message,...