How to locate nth position of \"^\" in record, Cut 2 Cols & INS...
I have over 100 text files with about 25 fields per record, fields delimited with “^”. I need to loop through the directory for files matching *TAT*.txt (about 100+ files) For all records in each...
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Hi jacob, You could try something like this: $str = @" 2013-11-17, 17:12:01 Condition: dest_path (\\Server\Folder) does not exist or is not a directory An error log was created and stored as:...
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Thanks, How do I create a job with a Name (like -Name parameter in Start-Job cmdlet). I’m really surprised that Start-Job does not provide a way to pass arguments to scriptblock.
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Using Invoke-Command? -AsJob -JobName WHATEVER All in the help file
View ArticleReply To: How to locate nth position of \"^\" in record, Cut 2 Cols...
hi, Not quite sure what your goal is, however I would look into building a function. To list all files matching *TAT*.txt get-childitem -Filter *TAT*.txt To read the contents of a file: get-content...
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Ah. Blank lines, whitespace lines, and $null are all different things. Try this, if you’re looking for non-whitespace: if (-not ((Get-Content c:\Scripts\CurrentPass.txt -Raw) -match '\S')) {...
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Or make sure you’re on the domain controller logged in as an Administrator and the PowerShell console is also elevated as Administrator.
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Slight modification and it now works! Huzzah! if((Get-Content "c:\Scripts\CurrentPass.txt") -eq ""){ Remove-Item c:\Scripts\CurrentPass.txt Rename-Item c:\Scripts\FuturePass.txt CurrentPass.txt
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@Dave Wyatt Saw your post after I fixed it. Will try what you have as well. Checking for “” may not be consistent for what I need this for so your method may work better. Thank you to all who...
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Careful there. That code will evaulate to true if there are more than one blank line in any file, even if the file also contains non-blank lines. I made a blog post on this topic a while back:...
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Thank you Dave. I will read your blog post. And thank you to the great Don Jones as well!
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I was in as local administrator. Unfortunately, the edition of Windows 8.1 is not Pro or Enterprise so RSAT will not work p.s. I was simply trying out the effects of get-adcomputer on my local machine...
View ArticleHow do I capture errors and assign to variable?
Hello, Response from Receive-Job contains some errors and I want to capture those in variable for some reason those are missing from variable but do output to screen when required. Example is below....
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use Get-Job to get the job object, and pipe it to Get-Member. You should see properties of the job object that provide access to the various pipelines. Keep in mind that in PowerShell, error messages...
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Expanding on Dave’s solution above, if you wanted to reinsert the dash you could add one line: $PhoneNumbers = @( "714 555 1212" "714-555-1212" "714.555.1212" "7145551212" "(714) 555-1212"...
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Thanks. For anybody having the same issue following will capture error stream as well ($Sender | Receive-Job 2>&1)
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And just to clarify what that’s doing: It’s taking the error pipeline (#2) and redirecting it into the main output pipeline (#1), mingling the two.
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I got some help previously from a few people on here and thought I would post the finished script. I apologise if this is not allowed just wanted to share it with people as I find it quite useful. The...
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You’re fine posting it here as an attachment, but we usually send folks to the TechNet Script Gallery as a repository.
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ErrorVariable and ErrorAction seem to work with Receive-Job just like any other cmdlet (though this test was running a local job, not remote. I don’t have another computer up on my home network at the...
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