Category: Powershell

Dave Mason is not amused:

When comparing two values in PowerShell, you’ll have to march to the beat of a different drum. The syntax is drastically different:

The short reason why Powershell uses equality operators like -eq is that Bash uses them. Though the funny thing is that Bash actually uses == for string equality comparison and only uses -eq for numeric equality comparisons. The norm for POSIX is =, adding yet another level of fun.

Dave Mason continues a quest into the bowels of Powershell:

Let’s talk a little bit about PowerShell variables and how long they exist within the scopes they’re defined. I’ve encountered some behavior that for me, was unexpected. It’s made my development efforts unproductive–especially when it comes to debugging.

Just like with notebooks, it’s important to remember that the Powershell prompt has a session, and that you aren’t running fresh every time. You can also use Dave’s solution to the problem, which makes sense as well.

Robert Cain hits us again on the topic of enumerations in Powershell:

In a previous post, Fun with PowerShell Enums I introduced the concept of Enums.

In this post we’ll dive deeper into enums, taking a look at more of its properties a well as other ways to use enums.

Read on to see what happens when you accidentally include a particular value twice, as well as more about using enums.

Robert Cain quietly tells us that Powershell is a real programming language, sysadmins who claim to hate programming:

This post begins a series on using Classes in PowerShell. As a first step, we will cover the use of an Enum, as enums are frequently used in combination with classes.

An Enum is a way to provide a set of predetermined values to the end user. This allows the user to pick from a finite list, and assure a value being passed into a function or class will be valid.

Click through to learn more about enums and how they work in Powershell.

Jeffery Hicks knows what time it is (it’s clobberin’ time):

I’ve published a new project to the PowerShell Gallery. This is something that I needed, and maybe you do as well. Even though I have the typical clock running in the Windows taskbar, I have an ultrawide monitor so it isn’t always easy to read. I had been running the xclock app from WSL which was nice. But realized what I really wanted was a WPF-based clock that would display a formatted date-time string on my desktop.

Now there’s a PSClock similar to xclock, and you can check it out.

Chad Baldwin needs to send a file:

Over the years I’ve written dozens of these, one thing that often hangs me up are the “copy to SFTP” and “copy from SFTP” steps. usually what happens is I build two scripts…an “export script”, which has a manual step of “open FileZilla and upload file”, and then an Import script with another manual step to download the file.

After some Google searching to see how to handle SFTP in PowerShell, I ran into this StackOverflow answer (the creator of WinSCP) which introduced me to some cool new alternatives for dealing with FTP, FTPS, SFTP, SCP, etc using PowerShell.

Click through to see one way to do it, as well as some additional recommendations from Viewers Like You.