You can try using .net: $Reg = [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey]::OpenRemoteBaseKey(‘LocalMachine’, $computer1) $RegKey= $Reg.OpenSubKey(“SOFTWARE\\Veritas\\NetBackup\\CurrentVersion”) $NetbackupVersion1 = $RegKey.GetValue(“PackageVersion”)
Use the Get-ChildItem cmdlet with the -Recurse switch: Get-ChildItem -Path V:\Myfolder -Filter CopyForbuild.bat -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -Force
Use Write-Error to write to stderr. To redirect stderr to file use: Write-Error “oops” 2> /temp/err.msg or exe_that_writes_to_stderr.exe bogus_arg 2> /temp/err.msg Note that PowerShell writes errors as error records. If you want to avoid the verbose output of the error records, you could write out the error info yourself like so: PS> Write-Error “oops” -ev … Read more
Much simpler solution: Get-PSDrive C | Select-Object Used,Free and for remote computers (needs Powershell Remoting) Invoke-Command -ComputerName SRV2 {Get-PSDrive C} | Select-Object PSComputerName,Used,Free
The given answers will only delete files (which admittedly is what is in the title of this post), but here’s some code that will first delete all of the files older than 15 days, and then recursively delete any empty directories that may have been left behind. My code also uses the -Force option to … Read more
Write-Error should be used if you want to inform the user of a non-critical error. By default all it does is print an error message in red text on the console. It does not stop a pipeline or a loop from continuing. Throw on the other hand produces what is called a terminating error. If … Read more
If I understand correctly, you want PowerShell to send the ENTER keystroke to some interactive application? $wshell = New-Object -ComObject wscript.shell; $wshell.AppActivate(‘title of the application window’) Sleep 1 $wshell.SendKeys(‘~’) If that interactive application is a PowerShell script, just use whatever is in the title bar of the PowerShell window as the argument to AppActivate (by … Read more
You can’t hook a file directly to stdin, but you can still access stdin. Get-Content input.txt | ./program > output.txt
After 5 years, the cmdlet I had pasted in the original answer has undergone so many updates that it has become completely outdated. Therefore I have replaced the code and the ReadMe with a link to the latest version. Besides the support for more object types and better formatting, it now outputs an expression (ScriptBlock), … Read more
Create a shortcut with something like this as the “Target”: powershell.exe -command “& ‘C:\A path with spaces\MyScript.ps1’ -MyArguments blah”