Monday 28/11/2011 – 8:00 PM
While I have been using PowerShell for years now, I have only used it as a literal replacement for the command prompt without benefiting from the additional functionality that PowerShell brings. However, in the past year or so, I have been come to see the light and have been using PowerShell for doing things that are either difficult or impossible to do in the command prompt.
Here's a list of functions, scripts and aliases that I use on frequent or semi-frequent basis. I am very interested in knowing if they can benefit someone else. I also welcome suggestions on improving and expanding them.
S# | Item | Type | Commands | Description | Examples |
1 | mf | Function | function mf($path) { ni –type file $path } | Make a file | mf d:\a.txt |
2 | uptime | Function | function uptime() { [string]::Format( "{0:0} Hours", [System.Environment]::TickCount/3600000) } | Get number of hours since machine was last restarted | uptime |
3 | fs | Function | function fs() { $disks = Get-WmiObject -ComputerName "." -Class Win32_LogicalDisk foreach ($disk in $disks) { if ($disk.DriveType -eq 3) { [string]::Format("Drive Letter: {0:N0}", $disk.DeviceID) [string]::Format("Volume Name: {0:N0}", $disk.VolumeName) [string]::Format("Total Size: {0:N0} MB", $disk.Size/(1024*1024)) [string]::Format("Free Space: {0:N0} MB", $disk.FreeSpace/(1024*1024)) echo "" } } } | Display the Drive Letter, Volume Name, Total Size and Free Space of all hard drive partitions | fs |
