The Lonely Administrator : Pipeline, Scripting

Why Doesn’t My Pipeline Work?

The Lonely Administrator — Tue, 07 May 2013 13:01:35 GMT

I saw a little discussion thread on Twitter this morning which I felt needed a little more room to explain. Plus since we’re in ScriptingGames season beginners might like a few pointers. I always talk about PowerShell, objects and the pipeline....(read more)

Rename Hashtable Key Revised

The Lonely Administrator — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:54:16 GMT

Last week I posted an advanced PowerShell function to rename a hashtable key. As usual, the more I worked with it the more I realized it was missing something – namely the ability the take a pipelined object. My original version assumed you had...(read more)

Pipeline Power

The Lonely Administrator — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:57:24 GMT

Last week I came across a blog post that had a decent example using PowerShell and PowerCLI to get the disk location for all virtual machines. The posted code works and does display the information you might be after. $myVMs … Continue reading →...(read more)

Have Your Output and Variable Too

The Lonely Administrator — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:52:00 GMT

There’s a relatively useful suggestion floating around on Twitter on how to save results of PowerShell command to a variable and see the results at the same time. PS C:\> ($data=get-process) I’ll admit this is a clever technique: you get...(read more)

Friday Fun – Get Ranked Object

The Lonely Administrator — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:25:22 GMT

Earlier this week on Google Plus, Hal Rottenberg posted a PowerShell idea he had. His goal was to identify a group of objects that would be statistically significant. For example, given a collection of files, group the files by size … Continue reading...(read more)

Finding Files in the Path – A Pipeline Perk

The Lonely Administrator — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:11:36 GMT

I’ve been chipping in on a forum post about finding if a given file exists in any folder within the system environmental %PATH% variable using Windows PowerShell. There are several ways you might approach this. But the best way in …... [[...(read more)