How do I concatenate strings and variables in PowerShell?
See the Windows PowerShell Language Specification Version 3.0, p34, sub-expressions expansion.
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How to upgrade PowerShell version from 2.0 to 3.0
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.
Prompt for user input in PowerShell
Read-Host is a simple option for getting string input from a user. To hide passwords you can use: To convert the password to plain text: As for the type returned by $host.UI.Prompt(), if you run the code at the link posted in @Christian’s comment, you can find out the return type by piping it to Get-Member (for example, $results | … Read more
Terminating a script in PowerShell
You should use the exit keyword.
How to run an EXE file in PowerShell with parameters with spaces and quotes
How do you run the following command in PowerShell? C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy\msdeploy.exe -verb:sync -source:dbfullsql=”Data Source=mysource;Integrated Security=false;User ID=sa;Pwd=sapass!;Database=mydb;” -dest:dbfullsql=”Data Source=.\mydestsource;Integrated Security=false;User ID=sa;Pwd=sapass!;Database=mydb;”,computername=10.10.10.10,username=administrator,password=adminpass”
How to run an EXE file in PowerShell with parameters with spaces and quotes
How do you run the following command in PowerShell? C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy\msdeploy.exe -verb:sync -source:dbfullsql=”Data Source=mysource;Integrated Security=false;User ID=sa;Pwd=sapass!;Database=mydb;” -dest:dbfullsql=”Data Source=.\mydestsource;Integrated Security=false;User ID=sa;Pwd=sapass!;Database=mydb;”,computername=10.10.10.10,username=administrator,password=adminpass”
Terminating a script in PowerShell
You should use the exit keyword.
Downloading a file with PowerShell
Invoke-WebRequest comes with a parameter to store its result in a file: -OutFile If you need authorization before you can send a request like this: To determine the layout of the form where the login happens, you can use Invoke-WebRequests return object. It’ll collect information about forms and fields on the HTML (might be Windows only). Mileage … Read more
How to export data to CSV in PowerShell?
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
How to split string by string in Powershell
The -split operator uses the string to split, instead of a chararray like Split(): If you want to use the Split() method with a string, you need the $seperator to be a stringarray with one element, and also specify a stringsplitoptions value. You can see this by checking its definition: EDIT: As @RomanKuzmin pointed out, -split splits using regex-patterns by default. So be aware … Read more