Redmond Magazine

How To Convert a PowerShell Script into an EXE File

PowerShell scripts are great because they can be used to do almost anything. One of the limitations to PowerShell scripts, however, is that it isn't always practical to give a script to someone who ...
Ars Technica

PowerShell script to copy files with logging

I am trying to learn PowerShell (using V3) and have a need to create a script that will copy a folder structure with logging. Originally I made a small script calling robocopy and that worked quite ...
Redmond Magazine

Using Configuration Files to Control PowerShell Scripts, Part 2: Building Blocks

In my previous article in this series, I explained that you can make your PowerShell scripts far more flexible and dynamic by leveraging a configuration file as opposed to hard coding all of the ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I automated my entire morning with a single shell script — and my workday starts instantly now

A single PowerShell script sequences SSH, Chrome profiles, and VMware startups with timed pauses to avoid chaos.
MCPmag

The PowerShell File Frontier, Part 2: File Length

Because you get the file object at the end of the pipeline you could do whatever you want. Perhaps you want to delete the file. The del command is an alias for Remove-Item and one you are probably ...
Streaming Media Magazine

How to Script for FFmpeg Using PowerShell and BASH

FFmpeg was designed as a cross-platform solution for video and audio recording, conversion, and streaming. Its About page describes the command-line tool as “the leading multimedia framework, able to ...
Computerworld

Introduction to Windows PowerShell

In 2006, Windows Script Host (WSH) and the Command Prompt shell got a new sibling when Microsoft released a completely new environment called Windows PowerShell. PowerShell has some similarities to ...