Questions tagged [powershell]
PowerShell is a cross-platform command line and scripting utility from Microsoft. Use this tag for questions about writing and executing PowerShell scripts ONLY. Programming questions specific to the cross-platform version PowerShell Core (Windows, macOS, and Linux) should be tagged [powershell-core]. Questions about system administration should be asked on Super User or Server Fault.
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renaming folders and files in large file tree
I have a large file tree with around 954,000 files. There are tons of files that I need to rename back to the original, symbols were removed from the original file name and replaced with a number code ...
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Powershell : Cannot convert the "java" value of type "System.String" to type "System.Management.Automation.ScriptBlock"
I have a powershell script which converts the String and String[] into a BlockScript. It was working until now but it starts to fail suddenly after some windows upgrade.
function Invoke-...
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Powershell: add new line after every line that contains a given string
I have a >7000 line XML file, which I define as $File, and which contains (scattered throughout all the other lines) four lines exactly as follows:
<text:p text:style-name="P27">&...
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How to make PowerShell `Select-String` aka `sls` output exact match(es) only?
In a PowerShell script, I would like to check if a branch exists locally already, which I'm currently doing as $existsInLocal = (git branch | sls $branch) -ne $null, but that's incorrect because sls $...
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PowerShell StandardOutput Redirect Issue
I am trying to use ghostscript to get the number of pages in a PDF. I am getting this error:
Select-Object : Exception getting "StandardOutput": "StandardOut has not been redirected or ...
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How to prevent the message "File open in another application" when creating excel instance
I was running a PowerShell script perfectly fine earlier, but for some reason this message popped up that's saying the file is open in another application. I have checked task manager and the excel ...
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Try catch in PowerShell still showing error
This is my code:
try {
$usernames = Get-LocalUser | Where-Object { $_.enabled -EQ 'True' } | Select-Object 'Name'
$usernames | ForEach-Object { Add-LocalGroupMember -Group 'Hyper-V ...
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How to extract full monitor manufacturer/vendor ID in Windows? (as same as Linux hwinfo --monitor command)
I´m stuck with extracting hardware information of my monitor manufacturer ID in this format: xxxxx_xxxxxxx
Basically, format which provides Linux command hwinfo --monitor as "vendor" ...
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Place every item from a text file into an array but detect headers/titles
I have text files that contain
Firstname: xxx
Lastname: yyy
Login: abcd
It has many others entries for other definitions but all in the same format header: data
I would like to use an array in ...
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PS: Redirecting error output of assignment statement to a variable
I am calling PnP-GetWeb like this:
[Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SecurableObject]$Web = Get-PnPWeb -Connection $pnpConnection -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
if($null -eq $web) {
throw &...
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Is it possible to run Connect-IPPSSession, Connect-ExchangeOnline using pwsh on a linux server?
I am trying to use the Powershell ExchangeOnlineManagement module, but I have to perform some automations on a Linux RedHat server and I would like to know if it is possible to execute commands like ...
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Powershell redirect stderr and stdout to two different places
How do redirect
stderr to logfile
stdout to object
Things I've looked at:
>> and 2>> only redirect to file .
-RedirectStandardOutput and -RedirectStandardError only redirect to ...
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Start multiple transcripts in Powershell
I have a script that loops through a CSV file and create an AD user for each line in the file. I want to have a first transcript for the entire master job and also a separate second transcript for ...
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Yarn PM not working in Windows when the User folder(UserProfile env var) has space in folder name or path
As stated in title, the Yarn PM(package manager), that I just installed in my system(Windows 11 64Bit) doesn't work if there's space(s) in my UserProfile folder path.
My User folder name is "...
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I get wrong process id number after launch brave profile with Start-Process
I want to open some brave profiles and close them later. So I want to save process id's on a file and iterate them to close it. But Id returned from Start-Process is not a real Id and I can't find ...
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