On Linux/Unix/MacOS:
find . | grep " "
On Windows:
Get-ChildItem -Path "." -Recurse -Filter "* *" | Format-Table FullName
The WSL Onion
Calling powershell.exe from PowerShell inside WSL
The other day I was playing around in WSL with a colleague of mine and we did this:
[Read More]Local User Management Polyfill
Older Versions of Windows 10 and all Windows Server 2012 systems have no local user management commandlets.
This is a working polyfill to allow scripts using local user management to run on old systems.
Linked: Powershell PSDefaultParameterValues
A deep dive into PowerShell parameter defaults
The Null-Coalescing Operator
A closer look at the null-coalescing operator and how it can help us in writing smarter, more concise scripts.
Today we take a closer look at the null-coalescing operator and how it can help us in writing smarter, more concise scripts.
[Read More]Delete Your Old VMware Snapshots
For the love of Pete, please delete your old snapshots regularly!
Old snapshots have caused incidents and even outages more than once in my career and it is really easy to preemptively look for them and get them removed before anything happens.
Why To put it plainly, they can cause issues - like 03:00 in the morning pager alert issues and additionally eat up storage space like crazy.
Degraded performance of the VM having the snapshot Degraded performance to full outages for other VMs on the same data store due to rapidly increasing snapshot sizes VMware recommends a series of steps to reduce risk when using snapshots:
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How To Find With PowerShell
Finding files, do I even need to describe how important this is?
Finding files, do I even need to describe how important this is?
[Read More]Super-Charged Cmdlet Aliases
It works like magic, but it works - Bring your aliasing to a whole other level!
Backstory I recently wrote a post about PowerShell Aliasing for the folks over at ScriptRunner.
The one issue I had while researching for this post was this:
You can not create a alias for a function and overwrite one of it’s parameters at the same time while keeping nice features like tab-complete.
For a concrete example of this visit please look at the original post.
At the end of the post I asked if anyone had a solution to this problem - and the internet delivered!
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Linked: Powershell Aliasing
A deep dive into aliasing with PowerShell
Why You Want To Install PowerShell On Windows
Why installing PowerShell on Windows may actually be a good idea
Q: Wait a minute! Don’t I already have PowerShell?
A: Yes. However you may want to continue reading because things are never as simple as they appear.
[Read More]Collections and Randomization
Randomize Collections in PowerShell
Randomizing a collection is useful in a variety of situations and in most languages it is fairly straight forward.
[Read More]How To Grep With PowerShell
It's just like Bash, but more powerful!
Filtering data, from log or config files to data returned by an api, is an important operation to remove noise from it and make further analysis possible.
[Read More]How To Tail With PowerShell
How to replace tail in PowerShell
Printing the last or first, few lines of a file is a common operation in day to day operations.
On Linux most people will, without thinking twice, use tail and it’s counterpart head to achieve this.
Bash Utilities In Powershell
Replacing common bash utilities in PowerShell
Whats the first thing coming to mind when seeing a command line?
For most people it is Linux, be it Ubuntu, Debian or RedHat. And it is completely understandable. A big part of our industry has a background in Linux and sees it as the superior system for quick scripts and the like.
In this series I want to challenge this notion. PowerShell can compete with, an in some cases outperform, the quick scripts and common daily tasks done in Linux shells.
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Vmware Tools Copy Files
Copy To Guest
$vm = Get-VM -Name TEST
Get-Item "X:\yourfile.txt" | Copy-VMGuestFile -Destination "c:\temp" -VM $vm -LocalToGuest -GuestUser "Administrator" -GuestPassword "Pa$$w0rd"
Copy From Guest
$vm = Get-VM -Name TEST
Copy-VMGuestFile -Source c:\yourfile.txt -Destination c:\temp\ -VM $vm -GuestToLocal -GuestUser "Administrator" -GuestPassword "Pa$$w0rd"
PowerShell
PowerShell holds a special place in my heart as it was the first ever tool I dived into deeply and used to automate my daily work.
To this day it runs a bunch of fundamental automations in my life.
vCenter Cert Bundle
Errors connecting to vCenter or any ESXi server in the cluster without certificate errors?
- Get CA cert from the vCenter:
wget https://{{ YOUR VCENTER }}/certs/download.zip --no-check-certificate - Install where required