PowerShell Examples

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PowerShell examples
		Name	Description	Last modified	Also available in							Remarks
					DOS batch	NT batch	JScript	KiXtart	Perl	Rexx	VB Script
		2ASCII 2Unicode 2UTF8	Convert any text file to ASCII, Unicode or UTF-8	2006-09-26		NT					V	NT batch command converts from Unicode to ASCII, VBScript converts any text format to Unicode
		BIOS	Display BIOS properties	2006-09-11		NT		K	P	R	V	Generated by my WMIGen.hta. For a simpler list, just use the command get-wmiobject -class Win32_BIOS instead.
		CDEject	Eject all CDROMs	2006-09-11				K		R	V	Requires Windows Media Player. OS/2 Rexx script uses OS/2 MultiMedia (MMOS2) Rexx Support.
		DHCPBackup	Backup daily DHCP logs	2007-08-30								Script by Jason Carter, Marshall University Computing Services
		GetRes	Show screen resolution	2006-09-11		NT		K	P	R	V	Generated by my WMIGen.hta. The Rexx version is for OS/2, use WMIGen.hta to generate an Object Rexx version for Windows.
		GetTitle	Read the console window title	2011-05-10		NT
		LeapYear	Check if the specified year is a leap year	2006-10-25	D	NT	J	K	P	R	V	DOS batch version uses BatchMan by Michael Mefford.
		Memory	Display total and free amounts of physical memory	2006-10-21	D	NT					V
		PSVer	Display PowerShell executable file version	2006-10-15
		ShowCpuH	Display CPU details in an HTML page	2006-09-01
		ShowPRN	Display all printers	2006-09-10		NT					V	Generated by my WMIGen.hta. For a simpler list, just use the command get-wmiobject -class Win32_Printer instead.
		ShowPrnH	Display all printers in an HTML page	2006-08-31
		Today	Display today's yesterday's and tomorrow's date in 2 formats	2006-07-05	D	NT	J	K	P	R	V	Today.ps1 combines the functions of my SortDate, Yesterday and Tomorrow scripts as available in other scripting languages
		TxtComp	Compare 2 text files and display the differences	2006-10-23						R
		Week	Display current week number	2006-06-26	D	XP	J	K	P	R	V
		Which	Locate the specified program file	2006-07-27	D	NT		K	P	R		See my UNIX ports page
		WMIGen.hta	This HTA generates Batch, C#, F#, JScript, KiXtart, Object Rexx, Perl, PowerShell, Python, Ruby, VB .NET and VBScript code for WMI queries	2011-05-19							HTA	Automatically checks for updates on startup. Based on the example from the Microsoft TechNet ScriptCenter article Scripting Eye for the GUI Guy, with help from the Scripting Guys' Scriptomatic 2.0 and HTA Helpomatic tools and The Script Center Script Repository: Sample Windows PowerShell Scripts. C# code generation with assistance of Bas van der Woude.