First of all, you lack parentheses to call GetType. What you see is the MethodInfo describing the GetType method on [DayOfWeek]. To actually call GetType, you should do: You should see that $a is a [DayOfWeek], and $b is a custom object generated by the Select-Object cmdlet to capture only the DayOfWeek property of a data object. Hence, it’s an object … Read more
Since you have access to the .NET library, you could access the OSVersion property of the System.Environment class to get this information. For the version number, there is the Version property. For example, Details of Windows versions can be found here.
Simply use the administrative shares to copy files between systems. It’s much easier this way. By using UNC paths instead of local filesystem paths, you help to ensure that your script is executable from any client system with access to those UNC paths. If you use local filesystem paths, then you are cornering yourself into … Read more
The OS that I am using is Windows 7, and the PowerShell version that is installed here is 2.0. Is it possible for me to upgrade it to version 3.0 or 4.0? Because there are cmdlets that version 2.0 can’t recognize.
This solution creates a psobject and adds each object to an array, it then creates the csv by piping the contents of the array through Export-CSV. If you pipe a string object to a csv you will get its length written to the csv, this is because these are properties of the string, See here for more … Read more
In PowerShell V1 there’s only # to make the text after it a comment. In PowerShell V2 <# #> can be used for block comments and more specifically for help comments. For more explanation about .SYNOPSIS and .* see about_Comment_Based_Help. Remark: These function comments are used by the Get-Help CmdLet and can be put before the keyword Function, or inside the {} before or after the code itself.
The -match operator tests a regex, combine it with the magic variable $matches to get your result Whenever in doubt about regex-y things, check out this site: http://www.regular-expressions.info