https://kb.whizzbang.co/ 2026-05-20T06:39:18+00:00 https://kb.whizzbang.co/ https://kb.whizzbang.co/_media/logo.png text/html 2022-07-11T12:23:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.whizzbang.co/powershell:qnd:documentation?rev=1657542214&do=diff Documentation * <https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/developer/help/writing-comment-based-help-topics> text/html 2022-10-06T20:13:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.whizzbang.co/powershell:qnd:file_operations?rev=1665087188&do=diff File Operations Path References $env:userprofile\Desktop $Home\Desktop ~\Desktop User Split-Path to get folder name cd $(Split-Path $PROFILE) Common Commands By Example List Items with Filter/Search for files with matching string in name text/html 2022-10-13T14:01:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.whizzbang.co/powershell:qnd:network?rev=1665669676&do=diff Network $WebClient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient $webclient.DownloadFile("https://somedomain.com/test.zip", "c:\tmp\test.zip") text/html 2022-03-31T20:09:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.whizzbang.co/powershell:qnd:os_environment?rev=1648757388&do=diff OS/Environment * The pseudo drive env: can be use to access environment variables (e.g. $env:windir) * ~ refers to the current users home directory text/html 2022-06-13T15:18:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.whizzbang.co/powershell:qnd:output?rev=1655133537&do=diff Output Get-ChildItem | Format-List Prop1, Prop2 text/html 2024-10-24T14:24:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.whizzbang.co/powershell:qnd:powershell?rev=1729779895&do=diff Powershell (quick-n-dirty) * Documentation * strings * OS/Environment * File Operations * Output * Network * Scripts and Modules Core * The back tick/grave accent (`) is the line continuation character * On Powershell CLI press Shift + Enter to go into multi-line editing mode * To string together multiple commands in one line use the text/html 2022-07-14T14:43:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.whizzbang.co/powershell:qnd:scripts_and_modules?rev=1657809814&do=diff Scripts and Modules Search for modules that contain a specified command. Find-Command -Repository PSGallery -Name Connect-ExchangeOnline Find modules in repo that match name. For example, the following finds modules with a name that begins with text/html 2022-06-16T18:02:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.whizzbang.co/powershell:qnd:strings?rev=1655402554&do=diff strings * `n and `r are the character literals for newline and carriage return Common Command Examples Using string Replace method to remove substring from string ❯ $url = "http://www.google.com".Replace("http://www.", "") ❯ $url google.com