&& is notoriously hard to search for on Google Search, but the best I’ve found is this article which says to use -and. Unfortunately it doesn’t give any more information, and I can’t find out what I’m supposed to do with -and (again, a notoriously hard thing to search for). The context I’m trying to … Read more
I’m starting to use PowerShell and am trying to figure out how to echo a system environment variable to the console to read it. Neither of the below are working. The first just prints %PATH%, and the second prints nothing. echo %PATH% echo $PATH 4 Answers 4
Is it possible to create a zip archive using PowerShell? 24 Answers 24
I have a .zip file and need to unpack its entire content using Powershell. I’m doing this but it doesn’t seem to work: $shell = New-Object -ComObject shell.application $zip = $shell.NameSpace(“C:\a.zip”) MkDir(“C:\a”) foreach ($item in $zip.items()) { $shell.Namespace(“C:\a”).CopyHere($item) } What’s wrong? The directory C:\a is still empty. 10 Answers 10
Is there a simple way to time the execution of a command in PowerShell, like the ‘time’ command in Linux? I came up with this: $s=Get-Date; .\do_something.ps1 ; $e=Get-Date; ($e – $s).TotalSeconds But I would like something simpler like time .\do_something.ps1 9 Answers 9
I have started to learn Angular but I note that powershell in Windows gives me an error whenever I make an angular command like: ng new new-app or ng serve this is the error what I got: ng : File C:\Users\< username >\AppData\Roaming\npm\ng.ps1 cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled on this system. For … Read more
I’ve seen the following a lot in PowerShell, but what does it do exactly? $_ 7 Answers 7
I’m using PowerShell 2.0 and I want to pipe out all the subdirectories of a certain path. The following command outputs all files and directories, but I can’t figure out how to filter out the files. Get-ChildItem c:\mypath -Recurse I’ve tried using $_.Attributes to get the attributes but then I don’t know how to construct … Read more
Can PowerShell 1.0 create hard and soft links analogous to the Unix variety? If this isn’t built in, can someone point me to a site that has a ps1 script that mimics this? This is a necessary function of any good shell, IMHO. 🙂 11 Answers 11
How do you take a command like the following in PowerShell and split it across multiple lines? &”C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy\msdeploy.exe” -verb:sync -source:contentPath=”c:\workspace\xxx\master\Build\_PublishedWebsites\xxx.Web” -dest:contentPath=”c:\websites\xxx\wwwroot\,computerName=192.168.1.1,username=administrator,password=xxx” 8 Answers 8
