Reply To: Help needed doing a find/replace on a group of text files
Adam and Mathieu, As far as I know the -match and -replace operators in PowerShell are case-insensitive. Below example works for me using a different set of test files of course. $TextFiles =...
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Nice ! Unlike the Replace method of string objects (used in the original script), the -replace operator is case-insensitive. This makes your solution simpler and shorter.
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Hi Folks, Sorry but the syntax for trying to do this has gotten the better of me tonight. I have some Azure disks I want to work on that I've retrieved like this: $uninitializedDisks =...
View ArticleReply To: Help needed doing a find/replace on a group of text files
I had tried used the -replace operator but that was probably 10 iterations of me trying ago. I'll try that again. However, I can tell you that -match is case-sensitive. It uses regex.
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Thanks for the $NewContent variable hint. Again, I was originally using all $Content but I get so frustrated sometimes I tend to just throw everything I can can think of at it. This was one of those...
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If they all have PhysicalDisk at the front, can't a normal $UnitializedDisks | Sort work?
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No, because "11" will sort before "2." A "plain" sort will only work if it's something like "PhysicalDisk01" and so forth. If that's not the case, I would probably do the Select-Object first, adding a...
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Here is my problem.. I have following parameters with me… - ComputerName of my remote system (Not the IP Address) - System is in Workgroup environment. - My host system is also in workgroup. - Both...
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First, your Enter-PSSession command will also require a -Credential parameter. But meantime, the problem you're running into isn't PowerShell – it's basic networking. How can your computer resolve...
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I've done some testing and reading http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh847759.aspx. The -match operator is case-insensitive as well. You can use the explicit case-insensitive operator -imatch...
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In my experiences you have to write to the file every single time you replace a value. The only way to avoid doing this is to create a file stream object that allows you to open the file for writing....
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Also found this blog post about doing it with Set-Content http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2008/01/17/how-can-i-use-windows-powershell-to-replace-characters-in-a-text-file.aspx There...
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I really appreciate everyone's help. You guys got me over the hump! It ended up being a combination of 2 things; the case sensitivity issue and the fact that this is being run from a WinForm. What...
View ArticlePSRemoting to Local 8.1 Hyper-v VM
I'm reading Don's new book Learn SQL Server Administration in a Month of Lunches and i set up my test VM. I'm running windows 8.1 and have hyper-v role installed. The vm is Server 2012r2. my laptop is...
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First, SQL Server isn't really all that "manageable" via Remoting, because it isn't terribly well instrumented for PowerShell. If you're following the book, you won't find any PowerShell. You're...
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Don, Thanks for the advice and I got a copy of toolmaking so I am going through that now. Mathieu, thanks for your advice and efforts also. I will give those a try and let you know. The reason a...
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Let's take it step by step : $OU = (("CN=SPARE-LAPTOP,OU=Laptops,OU=Workstations,DC=domain,DC=local").TrimEnd(",DC=domain,DC=local") -split ",") This gives the following array of strings :...
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Since it's a non-Windows storage device, I doubt there are any easy ways of showing a list of shares. The easiest solution would be to create a new share on the parent folder and giving only a service...
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