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Custom RoboCopy Progress Bar in PowerShell

I wrote a PowerShell function called Copy-WithProgress that will achieve what you are after. Since you specifically stated that you were using robocopy, I built a PowerShell function that encapsulates the robocopy functionality (at least, parts of it). Allow me to show you how it works. I’ve also recorded and posted a YouTube video demonstrating … Read more

PowerShell Script to Find and Replace for all Files with a Specific Extension

Here a first attempt at the top of my head. $configFiles = Get-ChildItem . *.config -rec foreach ($file in $configFiles) { (Get-Content $file.PSPath) | Foreach-Object { $_ -replace “Dev”, “Demo” } | Set-Content $file.PSPath }

Powershell equivalent of bash ampersand (&) for forking/running background processes

As long as the command is an executable or a file that has an associated executable, use Start-Process (available from v2): Start-Process -NoNewWindow ping google.com You can also add this as a function in your profile: function bg() {Start-Process -NoNewWindow @args} and then the invocation becomes: bg ping google.com In my opinion, Start-Job is an … Read more

PowerShell script runs when pasted into the PowerShell window, but not when run from shortcut

To clarify: It is perfectly fine to use Unicode (non-ASCII-range) quotation marks such as “ in PowerShell – see the bottom section. However, in order to use such characters in script files, these files must use a Unicode character encoding such as UTF-8 or UTF-16LE (“Unicode”). Your problem was that your script file was saved … Read more

Combine `Get-Disk` info and `LogicalDisk` info in PowerShell?

You need to query several WMI classes to get all information you want. Win32_DiskDrive gives you information about the physical disks. Win32_DiskPartition gives you information about the partitions on the physical disks. Win32_LogicalDisk gives you information about the filesystems inside the partitions. Partitions can be mapped to their disks using the Win32_DiskDriveToDiskPartition class, and drives … Read more

How to exit from ForEach-Object in PowerShell

First of all, Foreach-Object is not an actual loop and calling break in it will cancel the whole script rather than skipping to the statement after it. Conversely, break and continue will work as you expect in an actual foreach loop. Item #1. Putting a break within the foreach loop does exit the loop, but … Read more

Get remote registry value

You can try using .net: $Reg = [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey]::OpenRemoteBaseKey(‘LocalMachine’, $computer1) $RegKey= $Reg.OpenSubKey(“SOFTWARE\\Veritas\\NetBackup\\CurrentVersion”) $NetbackupVersion1 = $RegKey.GetValue(“PackageVersion”)

What does $($variableName) mean in expandable strings in PowerShell?

The syntax helps with evaluating the expression inside it. $arr = @(1,2,3) $msg1 = “$arr.length” echo $msg1 # prints 1 2 3.length – .length was treated as part of the string $msg2 = “$($arr.length)” echo $msg2 # prints 3 You can read more at http://ss64.com/ps/syntax-operators.html

PowerShell script to check an application that’s locking a file?

You can do this with the SysInternals tool handle.exe. Try something like this: PS> $handleOut = handle PS> foreach ($line in $handleOut) { if ($line -match ‘\S+\spid:’) { $exe = $line } elseif ($line -match ‘C:\\Windows\\Fonts\\segoeui\.ttf’) { “$exe – $line” } } MSASCui.exe pid: 5608 ACME\hillr – 568: File (—) C:\Windows\Fonts\segoeui.ttf …

Convert a secure string to plain text

You are close, but the parameter you pass to SecureStringToBSTR must be a SecureString. You appear to be passing the result of ConvertFrom-SecureString, which is an encrypted standard string. So call ConvertTo-SecureString on this before passing to SecureStringToBSTR. $SecurePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString $PlainPassword -AsPlainText -Force $BSTR = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::SecureStringToBSTR($SecurePassword) $UnsecurePassword = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::PtrToStringAuto($BSTR)