- Add-Content
- Clear-Content
- Compare-Object
- Copy-Item
- ForEach-Object
- Format-List
- Get-ChildItem
- Get-Clipboard
- Get-Command
- Get-Content
- Get-Date
- Get-Location
- Group-Object
- Invoke-Item
- Measure-Object
- Move-Item
- New-Item
- Out-File
- Remove-Item
- Rename-Item
- Select-Object
- Select-String
- Set-Clipboard
- Set-Content
- Set-Location
- Sort-Object
- Tee-Object
- Test-Path
- Where-Object
- Write-Host
| PowerShell command | description |
|---|---|
CTRL + c |
Kills the current process |
Clear-Host clear cls |
Clears the PowerShell Console |
start cmd |
Opens cmd.exe in the current directory |
start powershell |
Opens PowerShell in the current directory |
start notepad |
Opens notepad.exe |
start . |
Opens the current directory |
start .. |
Opens the parent folder of current directory |
start \ |
Opens the root folder of current directory, (eg. C:\) |
C: |
Switch the directory to C: |
D: |
Switch the directory to D: |
mkdir FolderA FolderB |
Creates 2 new folders of the name "FolderA" and "FolderB" in the current directory |
mkdir "Folder A" "Folder B" |
Creates 2 new folders of the name "Folder A" and "Folder B" in the current directory |
$a = "hello world" |
Declares the $a variable |
$a |
Prints out the value of $a variable |
New-Item ni |
description |
|---|---|
New-Item file.txt |
Creates new file file.txt in the current directory |
New-Item file.txt -type file |
Creates new file file.txt in the current directory |
New-Item css -type directory |
Creates new css folder in the current directory |
New-Item css.files -type directory |
Creates new css.files folder in the current directory |
New-Item file.txt -force |
Replaces the existing file.txt file in the current directory |
New-Item "folder A\file.txt" |
Creates new file file.txt in the folder A folder of the current directory |
New-Item "modules\js modules" -type directory |
Creates the new folder js modules in the new folder modules in the current directory |
New-Item ..\file.txt |
Creates new file file.txt in the parent folder of the current directory |
New-Item ..\css |
Creates new folder css in the parent folder of the current directory |
New-Item .gitignore -value "node_modules" |
Creates new file .gitignore with defined value |
Rename-Item rni ren |
description |
|---|---|
Rename-Item -path main.js -newname bundled.js |
Renames the main.js into the bundled.js |
Rename-Item main.js bundled.js |
Renames the main.js into the bundled.js |
Rename-Item media.css media.scss |
Changes the extension of the media.css file into the media.scss file |
Get-ChildItem "public" -file | ForEach-Object {$_ | Rename-Item -newname "$($_.basename)_copy$($_.extension)"} |
Adds "_copy" at the end of the name of each file in the public folder |
Get-ChildItem "styles\*.css" | rename-item -newname {"$($_.basename).scss"} |
Changes the extension of each .css file into .scss in the styles folder |
Remove-Item ri rd erase rm rmdir del |
description |
|---|---|
Remove-Item test.txt |
Removes test.txt file from the current location |
Remove-Item public\* |
Removes all files and folders inside public folder. If the public folder contains subfolders, the prompt will be shown to comfirm deletion |
Remove-Item public\* -recurse |
Removes all files and folders inside public folder. If the public folder contains subfolders, the prompt will not be shown to comfirm deletion |
Remove-Item public\*.* |
Removes only files in the public folder |
Remove-Item *.* -force |
Removes all files in the current location, including readonly and hidden files |
Remove-Item public\* -recurse -exclude *.css |
Removes all files in the public folder and all its subfolders, except the .css files. It remains the subfolders that contain .css files |
Remove-Item media\* -inlude *.gif,*.ico |
Removes only .gif and .ico files from media folder |
Remove-Item media\* -include *.css,*.scss -exclude font* |
Removes only .css and .scss files from media folder, but remains .css and .scss files that names begin with font |
Remove-Item media\* -include *.css,*.scss -exclude font* -whatIf |
Returns the information (instead of removing any items) which items would be removed if we called this command without -whatIf parameter |
Get-ChildItem -file -recurse | Where-Object {$_.attributes -match "hidden"} | Remove-Item -force |
Removes all hidden files from the current location |
Copy-Item cpi cp copy |
description |
|---|---|
Copy-Item file.txt "folder A" |
Copies the file.txt file from the current directory to the folder A folder |
Copy-Item file.txt .. |
Copies the file.txt file from the current directory to the parent folder |
Copy-Item "templates\main.txt" "html\main.html" |
Replaces the content of main.html with the content of main.txt |
Copy-Item file.txt media.css |
Replaces the content of media.css with the content of file.txt |
Copy-Item modules\* js |
Copies all files and empty folders (without content) from the modules folder to the js folder |
Copy-Item modules\* js -recurse |
Copies all files and folders with content from the modules folder to the js folder |
Copy-Item modules\*.js js |
Copies all .js files from the modules folder to the js folder |
Copy-Item *.* js |
Copies all files (regardless the extension) to the js folder |
Copy-Item tests public -recurse |
Copies tests folder to the public folder |
Move-Item mi mv move |
description |
|---|---|
Move-Item main.js public |
Moves the main.js file to the public folder |
Move-Item scripts\*.ts typescript |
Moves all .ts files to the typescript folder |
Move-Item dev\package.json . |
Moves package.json file to the current location |
Move-Item ajax.js scripts -force |
Moves ajax.js to the scripts folder. If the ajax.js file exists in the scripts folder, its content is replaced by the moving file's content. |
Move-Item parsed.js scripts\main.js |
Moves the parsed.js file to the scripts folders and renames it to main.js |
Move-Item uglified.js scripts\main.js -force |
If main.js file exists in the scripts folders, its content is replaced by the moving file's content |
Move-Item scripts public |
Moves the scripts folder with its all elements to the public folder |
Move-Item parsed public\scripts |
If the scripts folder does not exist, it moves parsed folder to the public folder and renames it to scripts |
Move-Item ".\*\*" allfiles |
Moves all items from all folders (two levels down) in the current location to the allfiles folder |
Get-ChildItem -file -recurse | Move-Item -destination "allfiles" |
Moves all files from all folders in the current location to the allfiles folder |
Add-Content ac |
description |
|---|---|
Add-Content file.txt "some new content" |
Adds extra content at the end of the last line in the file.txt |
Add-Content new_file.txt "some new content" |
Creates new_file.txt with the content |
Add-Content *.txt "new content" |
Adds extra content to each .txt file in the current directory |
Add-Content a* "new content" |
Adds extra content to each file in which the name begins with a letter |
Add-Content file?.js "new content" |
Adds extra content to fileA.js, fileB.js, file1.js, file5.js, etc. |
Add-Content file??.js "new content" |
Adds extra content to fileAA.js, fileAB.js, file15.js, file06.js, etc. |
Add-Content file*.js "new content" |
Adds extra content to fileA.js, fileB.js, fileABC.js, file0234567.js, etc. |
Add-Content *.* "new content" |
Adds extra content to each file in the current directory |
Add-Content file.txt "`nextra text" |
Adds extra content at the new line in the file.txt |
Add-Content file.txt "extra`ttext" |
Adds extra content with the horizontal tab in the file.txt |
Add-Content file.txt "some `"quoted`" text" |
Adds extra content with quotes in the file.txt |
Add-Content file.txt 'some `'quoted`' text' |
Adds extra content with quotes in the file.txt |
Set-Content sc |
description |
|---|---|
Set-Content test.txt -value "hello world" |
Replaces the content of test.txt file with the new content |
Get-Date | Set-Content test_time.txt |
Replaces the content of test_time.txt with the current date |
Set-Content new_file.txt "hello world" |
Replaces the content of new_file.txt (or creates new_file.txt if not exists) with the new content |
Get-Content main.js | ForEach-Object {$_ -replace "new Error","new TypeError"} | Set-Content parsed.js |
Gets the content of main.js and saves changed content in parsed.js file |
Get-Content main.js | ForEach-Object {$_ -replace "//.*",""} | Set-Content parsed.js |
Gets the content of main.js and saves the new content with all comments removed in parsed.js file |
Get-Content gc type cat |
description |
|---|---|
Get-Content css\layout.css |
Displays the content of layout.css file |
Get-Content css\layout.css -totalcount 5 |
Displays the first 5 lines of the content of layout.css file |
Get-Content css\layout.css | Select-Object -first 5 |
Displays the first 5 lines of the content of layout.css file |
Get-Content css\*.css -first 1 | Set-Content css\first_lines.txt |
Gets the first line of each .css file and store them in the first_lines.txt file |
(Get-Content css\layout.css)[0].length |
Returns the length of the first line of the layout.css file |
(get-content scripts\main.js | where-object {$_.length -eq 0} | measure-object).count |
Returns the number of empty lines in the main.js file |
Clear-Content clc |
description |
|---|---|
Clear-Content file.txt |
Erases the whole content of file.txt |
Clear-Content *.txt |
Erases the whole content of each .txt file in the current directory |
Clear-Content a* |
Erases the whole content of each file in which the name begins with a letter |
Clear-Content file?.js |
Erases the whole content of fileA.js, fileB.js, file1.js, file5.js, etc. |
Clear-Content file??.js |
Erases the whole content of fileAA.js, fileAB.js, file15.js, file06.js, etc. |
Clear-Content file*.js |
Erases the whole content of fileA.js, fileB.js, fileABC.js, file0234567.js, etc. |
Clear-Content *.* |
Erases the whole content of each file in the current directory |
Select-String sls |
description |
|---|---|
"hello world" | Select-String "world" |
Returns the line(s), where the word "world" has been found |
"hello world" | Select-String "world" -quiet |
Returns True, what means that at least one word "world" has been found |
Select-String -path "logs\*.txt" -pattern "failure" |
Checks, whether there is any occurance of "failure" in any of .txt files in logs folder. If so, it returns the list of files and lines that contain pattern |
"this is line 1`nthis is line 2" | Select-String "`n" -quiet |
Returns True, what means that at least one new line character has been found |
Get-Process | Select-String "chrome" -quiet |
Returns true, if the list of processes contains "chrome", or does nothing (if any "chrome" word has been found, the false is not returned) |
Get-Content scripts\main.js | Select-String "module.exports" |
Returns the line(s), where the sentence "module.exports" has been found |
Get-Content logs.txt | Select-String "disabled" -quiet -casesensitive |
Returns true, if the content of logs.txt file contains at least one occurance of "disabled" (lower and upper case matters) |
(get-alias).displayname | select-string "copy-item" |
Returns all aliases that matches "copy-item" |
(Get-ChildItem "C:\Windows\Fonts").fullname | Select-String "bold" |
Returns the list of paths of all system fonts that contain "bold" in the file name |
Get-ChildItem gci ls dir |
description |
|---|---|
Get-ChildItem |
Returns information about the objects in the current location |
Get-ChildItem public -directory |
Returns information about folders in the public folder |
Get-ChildItem public -file |
Returns information about files in the public folder |
(Get-ChildItem public -file).length |
Returns the number of any files in the public folder |
Get-ChildItem -recurse |
Returns information about the objects in the current location and all its subfolders |
Get-ChildItem public\js |
Returns information about the objects in the js folder |
Get-ChildItem scripts\*.js |
Returns information about all .js files in the scripts folder |
Get-ChildItem scripts\* -include *.js,*.css |
Returns information only about the .js and .css files in the scripts folder |
Get-ChildItem scripts\* -include *.* |
Returns information only about any files in the scripts folder |
Get-ChildItem scripts\*.* -recurse -exclude *.css |
Returns information about any files in the scripts folder and its subfolders except .css files |
Get-ChildItem @("css","js") |
Returns information about the objects in the css and js folders |
Get-ChildItem -file -recurse | Where-Object {$_.attributes -match "readonly"} |
Returns all files in the current location and all subfolders, that have readolny attribute set |
Get-ChildItem -file -recurse | Where-Object {$_.attributes -match "hidden"} |
Returns all files in the current location and all subfolders, that have hidden attribute set |
Get-ChildItem -file -recurse | Select-Object directory,name |
Returns all files in the current location with names and paths |
Test-Path |
description |
|---|---|
Test-Path "public\styles\main.scss" |
Checks if the main.scss file exists in the styles folder and returns true or false |
Test-path public\styles |
Checks if the styles folder exists in the public folder and returns true or false |
Test-Path "C:\","D:\","E:\" |
Checks if the listed locations exist and returns list of true and false results for each path |
Test-Path scripts\*.js |
Checks if any .js file exists in the scripts folder and returns true or false |
Test-Path $env:appdata\npm |
Checks if the npm folder exists in the roaming folder |
Compare-Object diff |
description |
|---|---|
Compare-Object $a $b |
Compares the content of two variables and returns the differences between each line |
Compare-Object @(1,2,3,4) @(1,2,0,4) |
Compares the content of two arrays and returns the differences between each item |
Compare-Object $(Get-Content fileA.txt) $(Get-Content fileB.txt) |
Compares the content of fileA.txt and fileB.txt and returns the differences between each line |
Compare-Object $a $b -includeequal |
Compares the content of two variables and returns line-by-line comparison, including equal lines, signed as == |
Compare-Object $a $b -includeequal -excludedifferent |
Compares the content of two variables and returns only equals |
Group-Object group |
description |
|---|---|
Get-Service | Group-Object Status |
Returns Get-Service items grouped by the Status property |
Get-Service | Group-Object Status,StartType |
Returns Get-Service in the groups of the same Status and StartType properties' values |
Get-ChildItem public\*.* | Group-Object extension |
Returns Get-ChildItem files from the public folder grouped by the extension property |
Get-ChildItem public | Group-Object extension | Select-Object Name,Count |
Returns the number (count property) of the files of particular extension in the public folder |
Get-ChildItem public | Group-Object extension | Select-Object Name,Count | Sort-Object Count -descending |
Returns the number (count property) of the files of particular extension in the public folder (from the largest to the smallest number) |
Where-Object ? where |
description |
|---|---|
Get-Service | Where-Object -property status -eq "stopped" |
Returns the list of all services that are currently stopped (in which the value of status property equals "Stopped") |
Get-ChildItem | Where-Object name -like "*.js" |
Returns the list of all .js files (wildcard characters) |
Get-ChildItem | Where-Object {$_.name -like "*.js"} |
Returns the list of all .js files (wildcard characters) |
Get-ChildItem | ? name -like "*.js" |
Returns the list of all .js files (wildcard characters) |
Get-ChildItem | ? name -notlike "*— copy*" |
Returns the list of all files without "— copy" in its name (wildcard characters) |
Get-ChildItem -file | Where-Object -property extension -eq ".js" |
Returns the list of all files with .js extension |
Get-ChildItem -file | Where-Object -property extension -like ".js" |
Returns the list of all files with .js extension (wildcard characters) |
Get-ChildItem -file | Where-Object -property extension -match ".js" |
Returns the list of all files with .js extension (regular expression) |
Get-Childitem -file | ? extension -ne ".js" |
Returns the list of all files that are not .js files |
Get-ChildItem -file | Where-Object -property length -gt 0 |
Returns the list of all files in which the size is greater than 0 |
Get-ChildItem -file | Where-Object -property length -eq 0 |
Returns the list of empty files (in which the length property equals 0) |
Get-ChildItem scripts\*.* | Where-Object -property name -like "m*" |
Returns the list of all files that name begins with m (wildcard characters) |
Get-ChildItem -file | ? name -like "m*.js" |
Returns the list of .js files that name begins with m (wildcard characters) |
Get-ChildItem -file | ? {$_.name -like "a*" -and $_.extension -eq ".js"} |
Returns the list of .js files that name begins with a |
Get-ChildItem -file | ? {($_.name -like "a*" -or $_.name -like "c*") -and ($_.extension -eq ".js" -or $_.extension -eq ".ts")} |
Returns the list of .js and .ts files that name begins with a or c |
Get-ChildItem | ? {($_.length -gt 0) -and ($_.length -le 5000)} |
Returns the list of all files with the size greater than 0 and lower or equal to 5kb |
Get-ChildItem styles\*.css | Where-Object -property name -match "^p.*" |
Returns the list of .css files that name begins with p (regular expression) |
Get-ChildItem | Group-Object extension | Where-Object -property count -ge 4 |
Returns the list of groups of 4 or more files of particular extension in the current location |
Get-Process | Where-Object -property processname -like "*host*" |
Returns the list of processes that contain "host" in the process name (wildcard characters) |
Get-Process | Where-Object -property processname -match "host" |
Returns the list of processes that contain "host" in the process name (regular expression) |
Get-ChildItem -directory | Where-Object {(Get-ChildItem $_).length -eq 0} |
Returns the list of empty folders in the current location |
Get-ChildItem *.js | Where-Object {(Get-Content $_).length -le 100} |
Returns the list of .js files that contain 100 or less lines |
Get-ChildItem -file | ? {($_.lastwritetime | Get-Date) -lt ("01.01.2017 12:00" | Get-Date)} |
Returns the list of files that were edited prior to January 1st 2017 12:00 |
ForEach-Object foreach % |
description |
|---|---|
Get-Content ajax.js | ForEach-Object {$_ -replace ".*","//$($_)"} | Set-Content parsed.js |
Comments out each line of ajax.js file and stores new content in the parsed.js file |
Get-Content main.js | ForEach-Object {$_ -replace "new Error","new TypeError"} | Set-Content parsed.js |
Gets the content of the main.js file and saves changed content in the parsed.js file |
Get-Content main.js | ForEach-Object {$_ -replace "//.*",""} | Set-Content parsed.js |
Gets the content of the main.js and saves the new content with all comments removed in the parsed.js file |
Get-ChildItem "public" -file | ForEach-Object {$_ | Rename-Item -newname "$($_.basename)_copy$($_.extension)"} |
Adds "_copy" at the end of the name of each file in the public folder |
Get-ChildItem dist\*.* -file -recurse -force | ForEach-Object {$_.attributes = "hidden"} |
Hides all files in the dist folder |
Measure-Object measure |
description |
|---|---|
Get-ChildItem public -file | Select-Object name,length | Measure-Object length -sum -min -max -ave |
Returns the statistics object for all files in the public folder (based on the file size values). Indicates the number of scores, the minimal, maximal and average file size and the sum of all file sizes. |
Sort-Object sort |
description |
|---|---|
Get-ChildItem css | Sort-Object name |
Sorts Get-ChildItem's returned data by name |
Get-ChildItem css | Sort-Object name -descending |
Sorts Get-ChildItem's returned data by name in descending order |
Get-ChildItem css | Sort-Object extension,name |
Sorts Get-ChildItem's returned data by multiple properties, first by extension, then by name |
Get-ChildItem css | Sort-Object extension,name -descending |
Sorts Get-ChildItem's returned data by multiple properties, first by extension, then by name, both in descending order |
Get-ChildItem ajax\*.json | Sort-Object length -descending |
Lists the largest Get-ChildItem's returned .json files first, and the smallest ones last |
Select-Object select |
description |
|---|---|
Get-ChildItem scripts | Sort-Object length | Select-Object name,length |
Returns Get-ChildItem sorted data table with only name and length property |
Get-ChildItem scripts\*.js | Select-Object *Name*,length |
Returns Get-ChildItem .js files with all properties that include "Name" (eg. PSChildName, BaseName, FullName, Name) and with length property |
Get-ChildItem scripts\*.* | Sort-Object length -descending | Select-Object -first 5 |
Returns Get-ChildItem 5 files of the largest size |
Get-ChildItem scripts\*.* | Sort-Object length -descending | Select-Object -last 5 |
Returns Get-ChildItem 5 files of the smallest size |
Get-ChildItem css\*.css | Sort-Object name | Select-Object name -first 1 |
Returns Get-ChildItem first (in the alphabetical order) .css file from the css folder |
Get-ChildItem scripts | Select-Object * |
Returns Get-ChildItem items from the scripts folder with all properties and values (if there is too much data to display the table, it will be displayed as a list) |
Get-ChildItem scripts | Select-Object * -exclude VersionInfo,FullName |
Returns Get-ChildItem items from the scripts folder with all properties and values except VersionInfo and FullName properties |
Get-ChildItem scripts | Select-Object * -exclude *Time* |
Returns Get-ChildItem items from the scripts folder with all properties and values except all properties that include "Time", (eg. CreationTime, LastWriteTime, LastWriteTimeUtc) |
Format-List fl |
description |
|---|---|
Get-Service | Format-List |
Displays Get-Service returned data always as a list |
Get-ChildItem | Format-List |
Displays Get-ChildItem returned data as a list |
Get-ChildItem scripts | Sort-Object extension | Format-List |
Displays Get-ChildItem returned and sorted data as a list |
Get-ChildItem scripts | Sort-Object extension | Select-Object name,length | Format-List |
Displays Get-ChildItem returned and sorted files' names and sizes as a list |
Get-ChildItem public | Group-Object extension | Format-List |
Displays Get-ChildItem returned items grouped by extension as a list |
Get-ChildItem scripts | Format-List * |
Displays Get-ChildItem returned items with all properties as a list |
Get-ChildItem scripts | Format-List Last* |
Displays Get-ChildItem returned items with properties that begin with Last (eg. LastAccessTime, LastWriteTime) as a list |
Get-ChildItem scripts | Format-List name,length |
Displays Get-ChildItem returned items with name and length property |
Write-Host |
description |
|---|---|
Write-Host "hello world!" |
Displays the output message in the PowerShell console |
Write-Host (node tests) |
Displays the output of the tests.js file execution in the PowerShell console |
Write-Host "hello " -nonewline; Write-Host "world!" |
Displays two output messages without line break |
Write-Host "hello world!" -foregroundcolor darkblue -backgroundcolor yellow |
Displays the output message in the PowerShell console with the blue text color and the yellow background color. Possible colors: [Black, DarkBlue, DarkGreen, DarkCyan, DarkRed, DarkMagenta, DarkYellow, Gray, DarkGray, Blue, Green, Cyan, Red, Magenta, Yellow, White] |
Write-Host "this is inline " -nonewline; Write-Host "error " -foregroundcolor red -nonewline; Write-Host "text!" |
Displays the output message with the different styles used in one line |
Out-File |
description |
|---|---|
Out-File -inputobject "hello world!" -filepath output.txt |
Stores the output content in the output.txt file |
"hello world!" | Out-File output.txt |
Stores the output content in the output.txt file |
node tests | Out-File test_results.txt |
Stores the output of the tests.js file execution in the test_results.txt file |
npm ls -g | Out-File global_modules.txt |
Stores the returned list of globally installed modules via npm in the global_modules.txt file |
Get-Process | Out-File proc.txt -width 150 |
Stores the list of processes in the proc.txt file and determines the maximum length of each line to 150 characters (longer lines will be truncated) |
Get-ChildItem -file | Select-Object name,length,directory | format-list * | Out-File dirs.txt |
Creates the list of files in the current location and stores it in the dirs.txt file |
Get-Content paths.txt | ForEach-Object {$_ -replace "Users\\some_user","Users\user_123"} | Out-File "new_user.txt" |
Stores the output in the new_user.txt file rather than displaying it on the screen |
Tee-Object tee |
description |
|---|---|
Get-Process | Tee-Object process.txt |
Displays the output content in the PowerShell console and then stores it in the process.txt file |
node run | Tee-Object return.txt |
Displays the output content of the run.js file execution and then stores it in the return.txt file |
Get-Content logs.txt | Tee-Object logs_copy.txt |
Displays the output content of the logs.txt file and then stores it in the logs_copy.txt file |
Get-Location gl pwd |
description |
|---|---|
Get-Location |
Returns the current location |
Set-Location cd sl chdir |
description |
|---|---|
Set-Location .. |
Switches the current location to the parent folder |
Set-Location ..\.. |
Switches the current location to the folder two levels top |
Set-Location \ |
Switches the current location to the drive root folder |
Set-Location ".\public" |
Switches the current location to the public folder (the child folder of the current location) |
Set-Location public |
Switches the current location to the public folder (the child folder of the current location) |
Set-Location dirA\dirB |
Switches the current location to the dirB folder (two levels down) |
Set-Location "dir A\dir B" |
Switches the current location to the dir B folder (two levels down) |
Set-Location alias:\ |
Switches the current location to the Windows PowerShell drive for aliases |
Set-Location env:\ |
Switches the current location to the Windows PowerShell drive for environment variables |
Set-Location $HOME |
Switches the current location to the C:\Users\user |
Set-Location $env:appdata |
Switches the current location to the C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming |
Set-Location $env:localappdata |
Switches the current location to the C:\Users\user\AppData\Local |
Set-Location $env:systemdrive\ |
Switches the current location to the C:\ |
Set-Location $env:systemroot |
Switches the current location to the C:\Windows |
Set-Location $env:programfiles |
Switches the current location to the C:\Program Files |
Set-Location HKCU:\ |
Switches the current location to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER |
Set-Location HKLM:\ |
Switches the current location to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Get-Clipboard gcb |
description |
|---|---|
Get-Clipboard |
Gets the current clipboard entry |
Set-Clipboard scb |
description |
|---|---|
Set-Clipboard -value "Copied text" |
Sets the current clipboard entry to the new value |
Get-Content clipboard.txt | Set-Clipboard |
Gets the content of clipboard.txt file and sets it as the current clipboard entry |
Get-Command gcm |
description |
|---|---|
Get-Command |
Returns the data of all Windows PowerShell cmdlets |
Get-Command | Select-Object name |
Returns only the names of all Windows PowerShell cmdlets |
Get-Command | Format-List * |
Returns all data of all Windows PowerShell cmdlets as a list |
Get-Command | Select-Object name,verb,noun |
Returns the verb- and -noun of all Windows PowerShell cmdlets, that build the verb-noun name of cmdlet |
Get-Command Get-ChildItem | Format-List * |
Returns all data of Get-ChildItem cmdlet |
(Get-Command New-Item).parameters.keys |
Returns the list of all parameters's names of New-Item cmdlet |
Get-Command Get-* |
Returns the list of cmdlets in which the name begins with Get- |
Get-Command @("Get-*","Set-*") |
Returns the list of cmdlets in which the name begins with Get- or Set- |
Get-Date |
description |
|---|---|
Get-Date |
Returns the current date and time in PowerShell console |
Get-Date -displayhint date |
Returns the current date in PowerShell console |
Get-Date -displayhint time |
Returns the current time in PowerShell console |
Get-Date 15.05.2017 |
Returns the date and time (15th May 2017 00:00:00) |
Get-Date 15/05/2017 |
Returns the date and time (15th May 2017 00:00:00) |
Get-Date "15.05.2017 15:00" |
Returns the date and time (15th May 2017 15:00:00) |
Get-Date "15.05.2017 15:30:25" |
Returns the date and time (15th May 2017 15:30:25) |
Get-Date "15.05.2017 3:30 AM" |
Returns the date and time (15th May 2017 3:30:00) |
Get-Date "15.05.2017 3:30 PM" |
Returns the date and time (15th May 2017 15:30:00) |
(Get-Date "15.05.2017 15:30:10").AddSeconds(14) |
Returns the date and time (15th May 2017 15:30:24) |
(Get-Date "15.05.2017 15:30:10").AddMinutes(7) |
Returns the date and time (15th May 2017 15:37:10) |
(Get-Date "15.05.2017 15:30:10").AddHours(3) |
Returns the date and time (15th May 2017 18:30:10) |
(Get-Date "15.05.2017 15:30:10").AddDays(1000) |
Returns the date and time (9th February 2020 15:30:10) |
(Get-Date "15.05.2017 15:30:10").AddMonths(15) |
Returns the date and time (15th August 2018 15:30:10) |
(Get-Date "15.05.2017 15:30:10").AddYears(2) |
Returns the date and time (15th May 2019 15:30:10) |
(Get-Date "15.05.2017 15:30:10").AddDays(2).AddMinutes(5) |
Returns the date and time (17th May 2017 15:35:10) |
(Get-Date "15.05.2017 15:30:10").AddMinutes(5).AddMinutes(5) |
Returns the date and time (15th May 2017 15:40:10) |
Invoke-Item ii |
description |
|---|---|
Invoke-Item "C:\windows\system32\calc.exe" |
Runs the Calculator |
Invoke-Item "files\*.txt" |
Opens all .txt files from the files folder |
Invoke-Item "docs\*.xls" |
Opens all Excel files from the docs folder |
Invoke-Item files\* -exclude *.exe |
Opens all files in the files folder, except for .exe files |
Invoke-Item files\* -include *.docx,*.xlsx -exclude *admin* |
Opens Word and Excel files, except for the files that contain "admin" in its name |