April 30, 2008
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- Prof. PowerShell: On File
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PROF. POWERSHELL: On File
By Jeffery Hicks
A common administrative task is to save the results of a
command or
query to a text file. In the CMD shell the traditional
method is to
use the console redirection characters > and >>.
You can still use
these operators in PowerShell:
PS C:> get-process > processes.txt
There's nothing wrong with this technique in PowerShell. I
have yet
to find a situation where it doesn't work.
But PowerShell has a cmdlet called Out-File which offers a
bit more
flexibility. This cmdlet should be at the end of your
pipelined
expression:
PS C:> get-process | where {$_.workingset -gt 10mb} |
out-file
LargeProc.txt
Used without any parameters, Out-File will overwrite any
existing
file with the same name. The cmdlet includes an -append
parameter
which will give you the same result as if you had used the
>>
redirection operators.
However, the cmdlet also has a nice feature to keep you from
accidentally overwriting a file. You can use the -NoClobber
parameter:
PS C:> get-process | where {$_.workingset -gt 10mb} |
out-file
LargeProc.txt -noclobber
When you use this parameter, if the file already exists
PowerShell
will display an error message:
Out-File : File C:LargeProc.txt already exists and
NoClobber was
specified.
The cmdlet also supports the -whatIf and -Confirm
parameters. These
are also great "sanity-checkers."
By the way, you don't have to rely on the pipeline to use
Out-File.
You can use its -InputObject parameter which will take the
specified
object and send it to a file:
PS C:> $p = get-process
PS C:> out-file myprocs.txt -input $p
Finally, depending on your situation or the expression,
Out-File
supports several encoding schemes. Use the -Encoding
parameter.
The default is Unicode, but you can choose from ASCII, OEM,
Default, BigEndianUnicode, UTF7, UTF8, and UTF32.
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611#post
Jeffery Hicks, MCSE, MCSA, is a Microsoft PowerShell MVP and
scripting guru for SAPIEN Technologies. Jeff is a 16 year IT
veteran
who has co-authored and written several books, courseware
and
training videos on administrative scripting and automation.
He is
the co-author of Advanced VBScript for Microsoft Windows
Administrators (Microsoft Press) and Windows PowerShell:TFM
(SAPIEN Press). His latest is WSH and VBSCript Core:TFM
(SAPIEN Press).
Check out MCPmag.com's column archive for more savvy tips
and tricks
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contributors.
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SHARING PROBLEM: I have two PCs and the first PC uses Vista
and
the other uses XP. I tried sharing using the same workgroup,
but
it doesn't work. The XP PC can find the Vista PC, but the
Vista
PC can't find the XP PC. What do I need to solve this
problem?
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FULL SCREEN FOR DOS APP IN REMOTE DESKTOP: I have this old
MS-DOS
program that when I run it locally on my Windows 2003
server, I
can change the screen size to full screen (Alt+Enter). When
I do
a remote connection to the server and run the program, if I
do
Alt+Enter I get this error:
The video device failed to initialize for fullscreen mode.
What can I do to be able to run this program in full mode
when
using it through a remote connection?
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ADDING GROUP REMOTELY WITH USER PRIVILEGE: Would anyone
knows how
to add domain group to local administrators group using
administrator privilege on the remote PC running restricted
user privilege? Here is my command:
net localgroup groupname admingroup /add
This has worked fine in administrator privilege, so how do I
deploy this command using admin right on workstations?
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OUTLOOK EXPRESS UPDATE TO OUTLOOK: I am using Windows XP
Hhome,
which came loaded on my e-machine. This XP version has
Outlook
Express and my new phone contact list will not sync with
this
product. I have also tried a copy of Microsoft Office 97
which
contained an earlier version of Outlook and this version
would
not sync.
What would be my best bet at this point? Download a copy of
Outlook from somewhere and hope that it will work with
Windows
XP Home or completely switch my OS for one that includes
Outlook.
Should I look at Vista? Not so sure that I want to do that!
Has anyone had this problem in the past and if so what was
the
cheapest fix?
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PASSWORD DISABLE UBS PORTS: I'm looking for a way to disable
USB Ports in Windows XP SP 2, unless a password is entered
or
authenticated user can access the ports. I can disable the
ports
in Device manager, but I want to have security on the ports
so
authenticated user can use them and unauthenticated user
cannot
use the port(s) for anything like a flash drive.
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