Using PowerShell to Download Files
How else do you get files these days but downloading files. This could be for a deployment purpose or to just use the terminal to download a file without using your browser. So what...
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Extracting files with Progress
With today’s topic we will see how to extract files with Python and show progress as well. We will be using zipfile, os, and tqdm to extract the files today. In the fast movement...
Copy Files in C#
There are about 100 different ways to copy files on a computer system. Various scripts already have builtin ways like Windows default copy or Copy-Item in Powershell. For a certain project we needed to...
Touch command in PowerShell
One of my favorite commands from the Linux terminal is the touch command. This is a way for users to create or modify files and their timestamp information. The following function is just a...
Powershell: Sorting Files
In a previous post I talked about how to use Python to organize files. Since most of my work is on a windows machine I thought I would add a Powershell based file organizer...
Python: Expand URL
Python has many great modules to deal with HTTP connections. A simple one to look at to day is the requests module. We’ll look at how to query the HTTP request for the HEAD...
Working with Archive Files
We can add these functions to our PowerShell profile or within a simple script we can reuse. To begin we will need to add a .NET assembly to the script. We have just added...
How to Create a PowerShell Profile
Every time you launch a PowerShell console, a profile is loaded that contains settings and much more to use. This is a great place to put your automation tasks and repetitive items if you...
Get System Up time
Getting the system up time on Windows servers or desktops is a needed task every so often. This information can be found a different ways but occasionally we need this information in our script....
Automate File Organizing
On our systems we use a lot of files and end up with a lot of clutter. Sometimes it can be hard to look through all those files and determine what is needed. Maybe...
Scheduling file backups with Python
No matter what industry and position you are in, there are always file you need to backup. With so many options out there, creating your own solution is sometimes all you need. In this...
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