Config Files In PowerShell
Explaining how to use config files in PowerShell for more complex scripts
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PowerShell
File Dialog With PowerShell
A simple way to show how to use FileDialog class with .NET in PowerShell
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 usi...
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. ...
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...
Working with Archive Files
No matter what we do we are always working with archiving files compressing or decompressing them. In this post we are going to take a look at creating a ZIP...
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 tas...
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...
How to Touch files in PowerShell
When working in a terminal a lot we learn several built in commands that we start to lean on those commands and tools in our everyday life.
Viewing Wifi Passwords
Did you forget your WiFi passwords and wish you could retrieve them? Or know what wireless networks you’ve connected to? With PowerShell we can do that prett...
Uppercase user input
During user input we need to perform some string functions to put the name in a proper format because lets be honest, no one always types correctly.
Python
Taking A Screenshot In Python
Quick demonstartion of how to take a screenshot using Python
Extracting files with Progress
With today’s topic we will see how to extract files with Python and show progress as well.
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 reque...
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....
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 some...
Port Checking in Python
Python’s Sockets library allows us to make connections to other hosts and we can use this to establish new sockets for our scripts or check if they are open ...
Python Countdown Timer
Creating a timer is something we can use with just about projects. Whether that is to sleep the script or create a timer to perform something else. We will u...
Export images folder to HTML page
Often times we have a lot of images in a bunch of folders, and we need to go through the files to review them. I will show how we can use Python’s glob(), en...
Encrypting Files
With python there are many modules to use for encryption. Today we will see how to generate a key and encrypt a file. Encryption is used when encoding a file...
Python Virtual Environments
There comes a time in writing Python programs where you need to test something, work on an update to a module, or test a new module in a sandbox. Luckily the...
Web
Install Installing Jekyll The Easy Way
Installing Jekyll the easy way
Simple Web Server
PowerShell is very powerful when we can leverage .NET classes in our scripts. One simple task is to create a simple web server to render our results or serve...
csharp
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 Po...
Computers
Updating File Programmatically
Quick demonstration of how to update a file programatically