A script is just a collection of commands saved into a text file (using the special .ps1 extension) that PowerShell understands and executes in sequence to perform different actions. In this post, we ...

If you have every used the Command Line, or CMD, interface in Windows, you probably have some idea of the powerful things it can do. Creating your own CMD scripts, you can do even more, but faster. A ...

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 ...

You can wrap an executable file around a PowerShell script (PS1) so that you can distribute the script as an .exe file rather than distributing a “raw” script file. This eliminates the need to explain ...

Last week’s README file demonstrated how easy it is to turn virtually any desktop machine into an SFTP server. Today’s piece shows how to automate a well-known Windows open source SFTP client using ...

This simple script tamed my Downloads folder.

You need to package up a bunch of files, send them somewhere, and do something with them at the destination. It isn’t an uncommon scenario. The obvious answer is to create an archive — a zip or tar ...

The script command not only makes a record of what commands you run but also allows you to save the output generated so that you can examine it later or easily turn your command sequences into scripts ...

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