In our previous article, we have discussed about zip / compress the selected files or directories using PowerShell Compress-Archive cmdlet. Through this article, we are going to discuss how to unzip the zipped files. Expand-Archive cmdlet – Unzip files from Archived file(s) PowerShell provides Expand-Archive cmdlet to unzip the zipped files. Through its -Path argument […]
Powershell – How to zip / compress / archive selected files or directories?
Windows PowerShell provides commands to zip (compress) and unzip the files. Through this article, we are going to discuss the PowerShell command to zip the selected files or directories. Compress-Archive cmdlet – Compress / Zip / Archive the selected files or directories PowerShell provides Compress-Archive cmdlet, to archive the specified files or directories. We can […]
PowerShell – Exception handling
PowerShell provides exception handling mechanism to enable to deal with the exceptions raised during the script execution. Known or expected errors, we commonly handle using Error handling mechanism; where mostly we use if statement to meet certain criteria and the change the flow of execution depends on the result of the conditional statement. Exceptional handling […]
PowerShell – How to access Clipboard?
Clipboard is a buffer in computer memory, allows the applications to copy and retrieve the temporary data. Most of the applications provides the Clipboard feature to share the temporary data across the applications. Most common way we can use the Clipboard is using cut, copy and paste commands. PowerShell provides cmdlets to use the Clipboard. […]
PowerShell – Type operators
PowerShell Type operators are used to verify the type of the operand. Are you aware, each value we use in PowerShell has particular Type? These are the types similar to the types defined in .Net. Yes, because PowerShell is developed using .Net Framework. These operators are allowed to verify the type of the operand. Through […]
PowerShell – For and ForEach loop
PowerShell for loops are used to navigate within the collection to retrieve it’s elements and allows to execute the statements within it continuously, when the given condition met. Through this article, we are going to discuss about For and ForEach loops. The for loop in PowerShell PowerShell for loop is used to execute the statements […]
PowerShell – Understanding the While loops
PowerShell provides loops to execute the sequence of statements repeatedly. These loops executes the block of statements within it, till a given condition is satisfied. Through this article, we go through while loop and do loops; do…while and do…until loops. While loop PowerShell While loop is to execute the statements within it continuously, if the […]
PowerShell – Matching operators – To find matching entries
PowerShell Matching operators are used to find the entries which matches or do not matches the given criteria. Matching operators These operators can be used on multiple operands. When we use multiple operands; the operands should be separated by a comma (“,”). Multiple operands can be used only on left side; right side is a […]
PowerShell – How to use Equality operators?
PowerShell equality operators are used to compare values. These operators compare the values and return either True or False; when the given condition matches. PowerShell provides below equality operators; as these are used for comparison, we can call them Comparison operators. PowerShell Equality operators All these equality operators takes 2 or more operands and compare […]
PowerShell – Bitwise Logical Operators
PowerShell provides below list of Bitwise operators and these ONLY works on Integer types. Why only Integer types? Because, these operators works on bits (0s and 1s) and only numeric types can support bitwise operations. Bitwise AND -band operator This operator takes two operands as inputs and apply the bitwise AND operation on each bit […]