The Lonely Administrator : PowerShell, Get-ChildItem

Getting Top Level Folder Report in PowerShell

The Lonely Administrator — Thu, 09 May 2013 16:34:39 GMT

One of the sessions I presented recently at TechDays San Francisco was on file share management with PowerShell. One of the scripts I demonstrated was for a function to get information for top level folders. This is the type of thing that could be handy...(read more)

File Age Groupings with PowerShell

The Lonely Administrator — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:40:55 GMT

I’m always talking about how much the object-nature of PowerShell makes all the difference in the world. Today, I have another example. Let’s say you want to analyze a directory, perhaps a shared group folder for a department. And you want...(read more)

Friday Fun: Edit Recent File

The Lonely Administrator — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:58:50 GMT

As you might imagine I work on a lot of PowerShell projects at the same time. Sometimes I’ll start something at the beginning of the week and then need to come back to it at the end of the week. The problem is that I can’t always remembered...(read more)

Simple Where Filters

The Lonely Administrator — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:44:29 GMT

The comment about how awkward it is in PowerShell to filter out folders with Get-ChidlItem, or its alias dir, came up the other day on Twitter. I’ll be the first to admit that running a DIR command and wanting to … Continue reading →...(read more)

Get File Utilization by Extension

The Lonely Administrator — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:03:43 GMT

In the past I’ve posted a few PowerShell functions that provide all types of file and folder information. The other day I had a reason to revisit one of them and I spent a little time revising and expanding. This … Continue reading →...(read more)