A collection of PowerShell commands

GeneralCommands.ps1

# List Current Version

 $PSVersionTable.PSVersion
 
 Example 1: Send output to a file
 Get-Process | Out-File -filepath C:\Test1\process.txt
 

# Example 2: How to retrieve recursively any files with a specific extensions in PowerShell?
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31049454/how-to-retrieve-recursively-any-files-with-a-specific-extensions-in-powershell
Get-ChildItem -Path .\ -Filter *.js -Recurse -File -Name| ForEach-Object {
    [System.IO.Path]::GetFileNameWithoutExtension($_)
}

# Example 3a: Get appSettings key value in Powershell
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <appSettings>
    <add key="updatelocation" value="\\gm107a\Updates\QC"/>
    <add key="filename" value="QualityControl.exe"/>
  </appSettings>
</configuration>

function vert {
$hostnamenodes = get-content C:\Scripts\Computers.txt

foreach ($hostname in $hostnamenodes) {
[xml]$xml = Get-Content \\$hostname\C$\Drivers\Version.config
            #Add hostrecord to array
            $MasterArray = New-Object psobject -Property @{
            "ServerName" = $hostname
            "updatelocation" = $xml.configuration.appSettings.add | Where-Object { $_.key -eq 'updatelocation' } | Select-Object -ExpandProperty value

}
write-output $masterarray
} }
vert | select servername,updatelocation | Export-Csv QA.csv -NoTypeInformation



# Example 3b: 

Out-File.ps1

# Example 1: Send output to a file
Get-Process | Out-File -filepath C:\Test1\process.txt

# Example 2: Send output to a file without overwriting
Get-Process | Out-File C:\Test1\process.txt -NoClobber

Out-File : File C:\Test1\process.txt already exists and NoClobber was specified.
At line:1 char:23
+ Get-Process | Out-File  <<<< process.txt -NoClobber

Example 3: Send output to a file in ASCII format
$A = Get-Process
Out-File -FilePath C:\Test1\process.txt -InputObject $A -Encoding ASCII -Width 50

# Example 4: Send output from outside a file system drive
Set-Location hklm:\software
Get-Acl mycompany\mykey | Out-File -FilePath c:\ps\acl.txt
Get-Acl mycompany\mykey | Out-File -FilePath filesystem::acl.txt