drlsdee’s gists

drlsdee / Test-FileHash.ps1

Created September 19, 2024 05:46

Compares the actual hash of a file with the specified reference value using the Get-FileHash cmdlet from the Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility module.

	function Test-FileHash {
	[CmdletBinding()]
	[OutputType([bool])]
	param (
	[Parameter(Mandatory, ParameterSetName = 'Path',
	Position = 0, ValueFromPipeline, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName)]
	[ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
	[ValidateScript({ [System.IO.File]::Exists($_) })]
	[Alias('FullName')]
	[string]$Path,

drlsdee / ConvertFrom-RomanNumber.ps1

Created May 16, 2024 13:03

Converts roman numbers to Int32.

	function ConvertFrom-RomanNumber {
	[CmdletBinding()]
	[OutputType([int])]
	param (
	#
	[Parameter(Mandatory,ValueFromPipeline,Position=0)]
	[ValidatePattern('^[ivxlcdmIVXLCDM]+$')]
	[string]$InputObject
	)
	begin {

drlsdee / Get-Win32Service.ps1

Created February 13, 2024 07:10

Get-Win32Service - returns an instance of class Win32_Service including the image path with command line arguments and the service account name

	function Get-Win32Service {
	[CmdletBinding()]
	param (
	[Parameter(Mandatory,Position=0)]
	[Alias('n')]
	[string]
	$Name,

	[Parameter(Position=1)]
	[ValidateSet('Name','Status','ExitCode','DesktopInteract','ErrorControl','PathName',

drlsdee / Show-PSModuleCommand.ps1

Last active October 24, 2023 14:32

Simply displays a summary of the cmdlets and functions exported from the PowerShell module.

	<#
	.SYNOPSIS
	Simply displays a summary of the cmdlets and functions exported from the PowerShell module.
	.DESCRIPTION
	Simply displays a summary of the cmdlets and functions exported from the PowerShell module.
	.EXAMPLE
	PS C:\> Get-Module -Name 'Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility' \| Show-PSModuleCommand \| Format-Wide -GroupBy Verb -Column 6
	Displays a summary of the cmdlets and functions exported from the PowerShell module "Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility".
	.INPUTS
	[psmoduleinfo]

drlsdee / Get-TimeStampedFileName.ps1

Created October 24, 2023 06:59

Gets an object of type System.IO.FileInfo and returns the object with generated filename based on the old name and timestamp. May be useful for creating backups, rotating logs etc.

	function Get-TimeStampedFileName {
	[CmdletBinding()]
	[OutputType([System.IO.FileInfo])]
	param (
	[Parameter(Mandatory,ValueFromPipeline,ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName,Position=0)]
	[Alias('FullName', 'p')]
	[System.IO.FileInfo]$Path,

	[Parameter(Position=1)]
	[Alias('u', 'z')]

drlsdee / CppHexVersion.psm1

Created April 4, 2023 13:26

Two functions to convert software versions from System.Version to hex string and back

	$Script:styles = [System.Globalization.NumberStyles]::AllowHexSpecifier
	$Script:formats = [cultureinfo]::InvariantCulture

	function ConvertTo-CppHexVersion {
	[CmdletBinding()]
	[OutputType([string])]
	param (
	[Parameter(Mandatory,ValueFromPipeline,ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName)]
	[Alias('Version')]
	[version]

drlsdee / Split-Array.ps1

Created April 4, 2023 13:06

Just an example of a function that splits the input string into a set of substrings of a given length.

	function Split-Array {
	[CmdletBinding()]
	param (
	[Parameter()]
	[char[]]
	$InputObject,
	[Parameter()]
	[int]
	$PartSize
	)

drlsdee / Get-OldItem.ps1

Created March 30, 2023 09:56

Returns filesystem entries older than N days

	function Get-OldItem {
	[CmdletBinding()]
	[OutputType([System.IO.FileSystemInfo])]
	param (
	[Parameter(Mandatory,ValueFromPipeline,ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName)]
	[Alias('FullName')]
	[System.IO.FileSystemInfo]
	$Path,
	[Parameter()]
	[int]

drlsdee / DotNetLocalizedStringFile.ps1

Created March 29, 2023 06:03

This gist includes a class and functions for checking whether a file (for example, a script or an ADMX template) has an additional file with localized data that matches the specified culture.

	#Requires -Version 5.1

	class DotNetLocalizedStringFile {
	[System.IO.FileInfo]
	$SourceFile
	[cultureinfo]
	$CultureInfo
	[System.IO.FileInfo]
	$LocalizedFile
	[bool]

drlsdee / Format-Guid.ps1

Created March 17, 2023 13:23

This gist just explains values of IFormatProvider argument of the ToString() method of the .NET type System.Guid. See more: https://learn.microsoft.com/ru-ru/dotnet/api/system.guid.tostring

	# This gist just explains values of IFormatProvider argument of the ToString() method of the .NET type System.Guid
	# See more: https://learn.microsoft.com/ru-ru/dotnet/api/system.guid.tostring

	enum PSGuidFormatProvider {
	None = 0 # Only alphanumeric characters: 00000000000000000000000000000000
	Braces = 1 # Figure brackets, "{}": {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}
	Dashes = 2 # Hyphens, "-": 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
	Parentheses = 3 # Round brackets, "()": (00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000)
	Xadecimal = 4 # Groups of heXadecimal values: {0x00000000,0x0000,0x0000,{0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00}}
	}