Questions tagged [powershell]
Windows PowerShell is a command line shell and scripting language for Windows that supersedes the CMD.exe shell and batch language. PowerShell is also an automation engine for Windows that provides functionality similar to Windows Script Host and VBScript.
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How do I run multiple commands on one line in PowerShell?
In a cmd prompt, you can run two commands on one line like so:
ipconfig /release & ipconfig /renew
When I run this command in PowerShell, I get:
Ampersand not allowed. The `&` operator is ...
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How to enable execution of PowerShell scripts?
When I try to execute my PowerShell script I get this error:
File C:\Common\Scripts\hello.ps1 cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this system. Please see "get-help ...
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Native alternative to wget in Windows PowerShell?
I know I can download and install the aformentioned library (wget for Windows), but my question is this:
In Windows PowerShell, is there a native alternative to wget?
I need wget simply to retrieve ...
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Equivalent of cmd's "where" in powershell
I can't seem to find anything about a Powershell equivalent of the where command from cmd. Should I just call it from cmd or is there something more elegant in PS?
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Equivalent of Linux `touch` to create an empty file with PowerShell [duplicate]
Is there an equivalent of touch in PowerShell?
For instance, in Linux I can create a new empty file by invoking:
touch filename
On Windows this is pretty awkward -- usually I just open a new instance ...
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PowerShell equivalent of curl
Is there an equivalent of curl in PowerShell? Does it have some similar built-in capability or is there a 3rd party cmdlet?
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PowerShell equivalent to the Unix `which` command?
Does PowerShell have an equivalent to the which command found in most (if not all) Unix shells?
There are a number of times I'd like to know the location of something I'm running from the command ...
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What is Windows' equivalent of the "which" command in Unix? Is there an equivalent PowerShell command?
In Linux, we have the "which" command to find out the path of an executable.
What is its Windows equivalent? Is there any PowerShell command for doing that?
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Copy and paste in Windows PowerShell
How do I effectively copy and paste input and output in the Windows PowerShell?
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Delete all files from a folder and its sub folders
I want to remove all files from a folder structure, so I'm left with an empty folder structure.
Can this be achieved in either batch or VBScript scripting?
I have tried a very basic batch command, ...
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how to run a powershell script as administrator
On my Windows 7 Desktop, I have script.ps1, which needs admin privileges (it starts a service). I want to click on this script and run it with admin privileges.
What's the easiest way to ...
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have Powershell get-childitem return files only
I'd like to use get-childitem recursively, but only have it return files not directories. The best solution I have just doesn't seem natural:
gci . *.* -rec | where { $_.GetType().Name -eq "FileInfo"...
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Turning off the cmd window beep sound
Is there a way to essentially mute the Beeping function of the Windows command shell?
I'm working on a PowerShell script right now which ends up printing several lines of text to the screen. I'm ...
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Linux "Top" command for Windows Powershell?
I am looking for a PowerShell cmdlet that can provide similar functionality to the Linux Top app. Something that refreshes at some given interval and displays the process list with CPU % util.
I have ...
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Disable PowerShell beep on backspace
This feature seems to have been added in PowerShell version 5.1, as I don't find it on my laptop still running 5.0.
When pressing Backspace in PowerShell, it will emit a 'beep' sound if there is no (...
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run powershell command from cmd
how i can run this command from cmd :
powershell.exe "(get-process | ? {$_.Description -eq
"Sysinter Process Explorer"}) | select processname | out-file
$env:APPDATA\example.txt"
i still get ...
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How to copy text from PowerShell
Sometimes I want to copy a command from Powershell to paste in a document, or I want to copy the output? How can I select and copy text in Powershell?
At least I know a way how to paste a text (or a ...
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I ran a PowerShell script. Was I hacked?
I was an idiot and was suckered into running a PowerShell script.
What are the details about it?
I have a feeling they only uploaded some files from my system.
But I am worried there may be a backdoor ...
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Detect if PowerShell is running as administrator
How can I tell in my scripts if PowerShell is running with administrator privileges?
I need to know because I'm trying to run a program that requires the ability to open protected ports.
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How to find WSL2 machine's IP address from windows
This question is related to my question about making a WSL2 address static. Since that looks like it isn't possible I am trying to come up with a workaround.
I am thinking I can run a shell script in ...
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Configure Windows PowerShell to display only the current folder name in the shell prompt
I'm using PowerShell on Windows 7. How can I configure PowerShell so that it only displays the current folder name (instead of the full path) in the shell prompt?
For example, instead of C:\folder\...
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Powershell equivalent of `grep -r -l` (--files-with-matches)
In Powershell, how do I list all files in a directory (recursively) that contain text that matches a given regex? The files in question contain really long lines of incomprehensible text, so I don't ...
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How do you create a new symlink in windows 10 using powershell (not mklink.exe)?
If there's docs on it, I'll take that. Any web searches for "symlink" "symbolic link" "windows [10]" "powershell" returns everything except the base command.
Even the powershell docs site returns ...
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pbcopy for Windows?
In MacOSX there's a command which can pipe the output of a command to the clipboard so that it can be pasted somewhere else in the GUI.
How can this be done from cmd.exe or with a PowerShell cmdlet?
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Nano alternative for windows powershell
I am looking for software similar to nano for linux bash but for windows powershell. Is there any built in so I do not have to install something?
EDIT Nano is a text editor that runs within the bash....
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Windows 10 Powershell tree command, how to show files
How do I list folders and files using the PowerShell tree command? Is it possible to color format the output for distinct files and folders?
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netstat with process name?
Using netstat -a -o -n I can get the list of ports and PID
then I need to go to task manager and add the PID and see who is it.
(pretty frustrating)
I was wonder if there is a CMD command which ...
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Changing last modified date or time via PowerShell
Is it possible to change a file or folders last modified date/time via PowerShell?
I have a folder folder1/ and I want to change the last modified date and time of that folder and it's contents via ...
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Configure Powershell to be conemu's default shell
Is it possible to configure Powershell to be conemu's default shell?
I know I can add additional "tasks" to conemu but I want it to default to use Powershell instead of cmd.exe so that, for example, ...
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Why does Powershell silently convert a string array with one item to a string
Consider the following Powershell script, which searches for folders in C:\ with a 'og' in their name:
PS C:\> (ls | %{$_.Name} | ?{$_.Contains("og")})
PerfLogs
Program Files
setup.log
Now I narrow ...
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How do I permanently remove a default Powershell alias?
For some unknown reason, the devs included "curl" as an alias for Invoke-WebRequest, even though it is not compatible with the proper implementation of curl, which means it gets in the way when I try ...
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Does Powershell have any sort of .bashrc equivalent?
I have some functions I'd like to load by default when I open an administrative powershell. Is there any equivalent to say .bashrc or .profile that I could use to automatically import the scripts ...
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Cannot change powershell default font to Lucida Console
This is a trivial problem, but it annoys me that I can't get to the bottom of it:
I'm running Windows 8, Powershell version 3.0. By right-clicking on the title bar I can go into the Properties and ...
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Change directory to previous directory in Powershell
I am a Linux guy, but am trying to be open-minded and learn some Powershell. I miss the ability to cd - back to a previous directory, like in *nix shells. Is there a similar command in Powershell&...
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How do I set an executable's working directory via the command line, prior to executing it?
If I run a program on the command line whose location is resolved through the Path environment variable, the program's working directory is generally set to its installation directory.
I would like ...
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Powershell to delete all files with a certain file extension
I want to scan a directory (there are no subs) and delete any file with an extension of .avi I tried this syntax, but no errors are thrown, and no files are deleted. This is the code I tried
get-...
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Windows PowerShell equivalent to Unix/Linux `pwd`?
In follow-up to the cmd.exe question, what is the PowerShell equivalent to echo %cd%, or Linux/Unix pwd?
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Is Windows PowerShell as powerful as the terminal of Unix/Linux? [closed]
Is Windows PowerShell as powerful and efficient as Linux' terminal?
People offline tell me, without explaining much, that Windows PowerShell is an attempt to make Unix administrators feel more ...
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Programatically associate file extensions with application on Windows
I've just recently reinstalled Windows and in setting up my environment I've noticed that all my associations for the various programming languages I edit in Notepad++ have gone (naturally).
I am ...
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How to maintain ssh-agent login session with Windows 10's new OpenSSH and PowerShell
On my Ubuntu machine, I simply use Keychain to maintain a single ssh-agent which stays logged in.
I'd like something similar to that on Windows now that OpenSSH is natively included. I was using Git ...
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How do I get get-childitem to filter on multiple file types?
I'm trying to get a list of all the XSL and XSLT files in a directory.
dir -recurse -filter *.xsl,*.xslt -name
But the following error:
Get-ChildItem : Cannot convert 'System.Object[]' to the ...
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Update Powershell through command line
I want to update a machine's Powershell version. Can this be done through the command line?
My present need is to update from PS 4 to PS 5 on a Windows server 2012R2.
I guess there is no catch-all ...
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How do Windows version numbers work?
I often come across texts where a Windows version is referred to as a four digit number, e.g.
Microsoft is urging users of Windows 10 version 1903 to install this
month's SSU or 'servicing stack ...
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Show human-readable file sizes in the default PowerShell ls command
How can I modify the default ls (Get-ChildItem) in PowerShell so that it displays human-readable file sizes, like ls -h on a *nix machine?
ls -lh does simple logic with the file size, so that it ...
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Replacements for ampersand and double-ampersand in PowerShell
In Windows' native CMD processor, you can use & to string commands together so that one runs immediately after the other. A && will run the second command only if the first completes ...
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Where is the known_hosts file for OpenSSH for Windows?
One of the servers I frequently log into via SSH has changed it's IP address. So, now I'm getting man in the middle attack warnings when I try to use SSH via Windows Powershell and OpenSSH for Windows....
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tmux/screen alternative for powershell
Is there an alternative to tmux/screen that would work on Windows with Powershell? I'm aware of Powerscreen, but it seems dead for a long time. Cygwin wouldn't work with Powershell, would it? Console2 ...
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tee for Windows?
Does Windows provide the basic tee facility for copying standard input to an arbitrary set of files and then back out to standard output?
I generally download a generic tee program, but curious if ...
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Equivalent of bash's `source` command in Powershell?
To run a bash script line-by-line (so as to preserve environment variables, for instance), one does the following:
$ . myscript.sh
Or:
$ source myscript.sh
I have a PowerShell script that - among ...
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How to enable Internet Connection Sharing using command line?
I can do it manually by right-clicking on a network connection, opening the Sharing tab and clicking on the "Allow other network users to connect through this computer's Internet connection" check box....
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