Category Archives: PowerShell

Weird Terminating Error Behavior

I’m writing a dirty hack PowerShell provider so that I can have a reasonable base of knowledge before approaching something more work-oriented.  One component of the path the provider accepts must be an integer, so I decided to throw a … Continue reading

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Writing Objects from PowerShell Scripts

I’m going to continue writing about PowerShell because it’s fun to talk about and fun to use. Today I decided to try and analyze some data in text files using a PowerShell script. The files were simulations of a betting … Continue reading

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Expanding Wildcards in PowerShell

Yesterday I thought I’d jump into the deep end of PowerShell and try to make a provider; this lets you treat some data store as a drive in PowerShell.  It didn’t work out very well, mainly because I had no … Continue reading

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Working with Enumerations in PowerShell

Two posts in one day should show you I’m excited about PowerShell. I wanted to update the script from my last post to find my My Documents folder so if I hop to Vista I won’t get an error, and … Continue reading

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