How to output words on a Power Shell screen?
In order to output words on the PowerShell screen all you need to do is to type in below cmdlet follows with the words inside the ” “. which will generate the below output
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Accept pipeline object from a function in Power Shell
The below power shell function will accept a pipeline object and display it on the command prompt. By setting the ValueFromPipeline property of a parameter to true a function can thus accept an object through a pipeline within the PowerShell command prompt!
The Mandatory property in PowerShell Parameter attribute
The below PowerShell program will force the user to specify the value of the two variables by setting the Parameter attribute in a function to true. If the user forgets to enter the value of both or either variable of the function then PowerShell will ask the user to enter them.
Use function to replace value of global variable in PowerShell
Here are the steps to replace the value of a global variable in PowerShell:- 1) Create a function like this 2) Before the function calls 3) Next call the above function with a dot in front of it and then replace the value of the global variable with the one specified. The PowerShell’s global variable…
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Here is the Powershell command used to multiply numbers
The below Powershell command will multiply three numbers and then add them up together. First, let’s create the function which will do the multiplication job. Next, try the above function out in your own Powershell console. Which will produce the following outcomes:- The process step of the function will display each step of the multiplication…
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How to use the filter in PowerShell?
If you want to pass an element one by one through a pipeline to a function, you use the filter to do so. In order to use the filter in PowerShell you will need a temporary placeholder for each element through the pipeline like this, $_. The above command will pass each element one by…
How to pass values through pipeline to a function in PowerShell?
Below is an example of how you can pass values through a pipeline to a function in PowerShell. All the values are kept within the enumerator object, $input, which is an implied argument that can then be used to loop through all those values one by one as follows:- The above command produced the following…
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Command to print 1 to 30 in PowerShell
The below command will print 1 to 30 in PowerShell using the ForEach-Object cmdlet which will print the numbers one at a time. The outcome is as follows:
Find the size of each files in a folder in PowerShell
The below PowerShell command will display the size of each text files within a folder. As you can see I am using the ‘foreach’ statement of PowerShell to loop through each text file within a folder in your computer and prints out their name and file size accordingly. There is only one file in the…
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Command to find the number of text file in PowerShell
If you want to find the number of text files within a computer’s folder then you can use the following PowerShell command:- The above PowerShell command uses the switch statement to loop through all the files within the txt folder which is under the E drive and each time one will be added to the…
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