powershell cheatsheet

ps_cheatsheet.ps1

# powershell cheatsheet
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# restart computer

Restart-Computer -Force # force restart

# handbrake batch processing
$filelist = Get-ChildItem D:\Video\ -Filter *.wmv

ForEach ($file in $filelist)
{
    $oldfile = $file.DirectoryName + "\" + $file;
    $newfile = $file.DirectoryName + "\" + $file + ".mp4";
    Start-Process "C:\Program Files (x86)\myapp.exe" -ArgumentList "-i `"$oldfile`"  -o `"$newfile`" " -Wait -NoNewWindow
}

# delete files older than N days

$Folder = "G:\Downloads"

Get-ChildItem $Folder -Recurse -Force -ea 0 |
Where-Object { !$_.PsIsContainer -and $_.LastWriteTime -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-180) } |
ForEach-Object {
    $_ | Remove-Item -Force
    $_.FullName | Out-File C:\Users\<LOGPATH>\deletedlog.txt -Append
}

# Delete empty folders and subfolders

Get-ChildItem $Folder -Recurse -Force -ea 0 |
Where-Object { $_.PsIsContainer -eq $True } |
Where-Object { $_.getfiles().count -eq 0 } |
ForEach-Object {
    $_ | Remove-Item -Force
    $_.FullName | Out-File C:\log\deletedlog.txt -Append
}

# test firewall port (sftp in this case)

Test-NetConnection -ComputerName sftp.givecampus.com -Port 22

# function with args

function RunAgainstDB([String] $db, [String] $base)
{
    # code here
}

# wrap code into function.

function MyFunction
{
    # your code here
}


# not equal

"item 1" -ne "item 2"

# list .net versions installed on windows 10 systems

Get-ChildItem 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP' -Recurse | Get-ItemProperty -Name version -EA 0 | Where-Object { $_.PSChildName -Match '^(?!S)\p{L}' } | Select-Object PSChildName, version

# try catch blocks

try
{
    # logic
}
catch
{
    # generic catch all error
    Write-Host "An error occurred:"
    Write-Host $_.ScriptStackTrace
}

# multiline command

use backticks `

# read lines of file and run command against them

```
foreach ($line in Get-Content .\file.txt)
{
    # Work here
}
```

# concat strings

Write-Host "processing scripts on $server $db"


#turn on error handling for running PS in sql server agent

$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"

# foreach loop
```
$letterArray = "a", "b", "c", "d"
foreach ($letter in $letterArray)
{
    Write-Host $letter
}
```

# export csv files from sql server
# requires module
# Install-Module -Name SqlServer
```
$server = 'SQLSERVER'
$destDir = 'C:\Dest'
$db = 'Database'
$varDate = Get-Date -Format yyyyMMdd
$outputFile = 'file_' + $varDate + '.txt'
$output = Join-Path $destDir $outputFile
Invoke-Sqlcmd -InputFile 'test.sql' -serverinstance $server -database $db `
| Export-Csv -Path $output -NoType -Delimiter '|'
```

# call powershell and pass it arguments to execute command
powershell -c "Start-ScheduledTask -TaskName 'post_image_twitterbot'"

# start task
Start-ScheduledTask -TaskName "ScanSoftware"

# Scheduled Tasks
Get-ScheduledTask # list

# path
Get-ScheduledTask -TaskPath "\UpdateTasks\*"

# single task
Get-ScheduledTask -TaskName "DailyMacPull"

# get task info
Get-ScheduledTaskInfo -TaskName "\Sample\SchedTask01"

# start scheduled task
Start-ScheduledTask -TaskName "ScanSoftware"

# start all tasks in folder
Get-ScheduledTask -TaskPath "\UpdateTasks\UpdateVirus\" | Start-ScheduledTask

# output directory
tree
#pass path
tree c:\path
# with files
tree /f

# Get history
Get-History

# move item
Move-Item -Path C:\test.txt -Destination E:\Temp\tst.txt

# query file and match pattern / Where context gives you pre,post N lines.
PS> Select-String -Pattern "case" -Context 1, 2 poet.txt

# write to output
Write-Host "******** Hello World **********"

# read input to variable
$directoryToClean = Read-Host 'Please enter the directory to clean...'

# remove spaces from files in directory (can specify files only with switch -File)
Get-ChildItem -File $directoryToClean | Rename-Item -NewName { $_.Name -replace ' ', '' }

# read file into body of email where $fullFilePath is a text file.
$emailBody = Get-Content -Path $fullFilePath -Raw

# remove duplicate lines from text file (first sort)
$filename | Sort-Object | Get-Unique > $newfileName

# get version
Get-Host | Select-Object Version

# pipe output to html
Get-Alias | ConvertTo-Html | Out-File aliases.htm

# tail file
Get-Content ./log.log -Tail 10

# gets the last 10 lines of the file and waits for more
Get-Content ./log.log -Wait -Tail 10

# Also, for those *nix users, note that most systems alias cat to Get-Content, so this usually works
Get-Content \\<DIRECTORY>\<FILE.log> -Tail 25

# tail and grep using regex eg grab only date
Get-Content .\info.log -Tail 25 | Where-Object { $_ -match "2022-03-21" }

# get date and format
Get-Date

Get-Date -Format yyyyMMdd
# output: 20190405

# assign to variable
$varDate = Get-Date -Format s
Write-Output $varDate
# output: 2019-04-05T08:01:29

# convert object to string
$object_variable | Out-String

# Send an email (with no body) from User01 to User02: (missing smtp server)
Send-MailMessage -To "User01 <[email protected]>" -From "User02 <[email protected]>" -Subject "Test mail" -Body "hello world" -SmtpServer "<SERVER.DOMAIN.COM>"
# add for html, preface -body with:
-bodyashtml

# assign variable with dollar sign $
$varTemp = "whatever"

# get last write time of file list and pipe to foreach
Get-ChildItem $directory | ForEach-Object { $_.LastAccessTime }

# get files last written to within the last 7 days
Get-ChildItem $directory | Where-Object { $_.LastWriteTime -gt (Get-Date).AddDays(-7) }

# check if variable is null (returns True / False)
$variable -eq $null

# check if  is greater than
if (1 -gt 0)
{}

# call exe from powershell
Start-Process -FilePath "C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy\msdeploy.exe"

# and add redirect output
-RedirectStandardOutput "Testsort.txt"

# Syntax for IF STATEMENT
if ( condition ) { commands_to_execute }
elseif ( condition2 ) { commands_to_execute }
else { commands_to_execute }

# Key
# Condition  An expression that will evaluate to true or false,
# often utilising one or more comparison operators.

# commands_to_execute
# A PowerShell or external command to run if the condition is true.

# run tfs cli and email output
C:
Set-Location "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE"
$lastfifty = .\tf history $/<TFS PROJECT> /format:brief /noprompt /recursive /stopafter:50 | Out-String
$dateSent = Get-Date -Format yyyy-MM-dd
$vSubject = "TFS Log " + $dateSent
$vBody = $lastfifty
Send-MailMessage -To "YOURNAME <[email protected]>", "YOURNAMETWO <[email protected]>" -Cc "YOUR NAME <[email protected]>" -From "FROM EMAIL <[email protected]>"-Subject $vSubject -Body $vBody -SmtpServer "mail.SMTPSERVER.com"