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About Me
I am certified Microsoft professional, a Microsoft MVP and an IT veteran with almost 20 years of experience, much of it spent as an IT consultant specializing in Windows server technologies. I work today as an independent author, trainer and consultant. I've co-authored or authored several books, courseware, and training videos on administrative scripting and automation. My latest book is Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShel: TFM 2nd Ed.(SAPIEN Press 2011).
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Tag Archives: Get-ChildItem
Simple Where Filters
The comment about how awkward it is in PowerShell to filter out folders with Get-ChidlItem, or its alias dir, came up the other day on Twitter. I’ll be the first to admit that running a DIR command and wanting to … Continue reading
Posted in CommandLine, PowerShell
Tagged functions, Get-ChildItem, PowerShell, Where-Object
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Get File Utilization by Extension
In the past I’ve posted a few PowerShell functions that provide all types of file and folder information. The other day I had a reason to revisit one of them and I spent a little time revising and expanding. This … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell v2.0, Scripting
Tagged Files, Get-ChildItem, Group-Ojbect, Invoke-Expression, Jobs, Measure-Object, PowerShell
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All Hail Dir UseALot!
Some of you know my relationship with the a command prompt goes back a long, long way. Naturally I became very adept at using the DIR command, fully taking advantage of its switches to tease out hidden information or to … Continue reading
Posted in CommandLine, PowerShell v2.0, Scripting
Tagged Add-Member, FileSystem, functions, Get-ChildItem, PowerShell, ps1xml, Scripting, Update-FormatDate
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