Category: Powershell

Jeffrey Hicks shows us how to keep track of lost time:

Here’s the “issue” that often arises. Someone will mention that PowerShell, and this includes PowerShell Core, takes too long to load. In fact, PowerShell now shows you how long it took to load. Almost always, the issue is something profile related. Sometimes a command is taking too long to run, or maybe the profile needs a little cleanup. I know my PS7 load times were high until I cleaned up a few items and re-structured some of the commands.

To make this easier, I put together a simple script that you can run in Windows PowerShell, or PowerShell (even cross-platform) that will run your profile scripts and report how long they take to complete.

Click through for more details, as well as a script to test how quickly your Powershell profiles load.

Garry Bargsley shows how easy it is to save a transcript in Powershell:

This week we are going to launch a blog series geared towards folks that are new to PowerShell. The growing popularity of automation is seeing people getting started with the PowerShell scripting language.

The Start-Transcript is a built-in command that allows you to quickly build a log of actions being taken by your script. There are other ways to build logs, but for beginners using the commands that are available to you is pretty easy.

Read on for a demo.

Adam Listek brings us up to date on the utility of Write-Host in Powershell:

Over the years, there has been a lot of debate around the PowerShell Write Host cmdlet on whether it’s needed and when to use it. As in most cases, the answer is maybe and dependent on your needs.

To understand Write-Host and when to use it, let’s quickly explore the history of Write-Host and learn how best to use this useful cmdlet.

Read on to learn more.

Jeffrey Hicks takes us through color changes with Powershell:

I readily admit that I spend a great deal of my day at a PowerShell prompt. My day is very much run from the command-line, and has been for quite some time. This used to be a drab, gray existence. But I’ve been finding ways to liven things up. Here’s one way.

The PSScriptTools module includes a number of custom format files with alternate views. You need to make sure the module is imported before you can use any of them.

It’s interesting just how much of a quality of life improvement file type coloration is. I’ll go out of my way to use colorized shells with bash, as well as pretty much any IDE and even Notepad++.