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August 31, 2012Aug 31, 201208/31/12Summary: Learn a simple trick to display the character associated with an ASCII value.
I would like to display the ascii character associated with the ascii value 56. How can I do this?
[char]56
August 31, 2012Aug 31, 201208/31/12Summary: Learn how to use the updatable Help feature in Windows PowerShell.
Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Our guest blogger today is June Blender.
June Blender is a senior programming writer on the Windows PowerShell team at Microsoft, an avid Windows PowerShell user,
August 30, 2012Aug 30, 201208/30/12Summary: Learn to display output and write it to a text file.
I need to display process output at the Windows PowerShell prompt and write that same output to a text file. How can I do this?
Get-process | Tee-Object -FilePath c:\fso\proc.txt
August 30, 2012Aug 30, 201208/30/12Summary: Guest blogger, Jason Walker, discusses finding the right Windows PowerShell cmdlet for the job.
Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today is the preview for Jason Walker’s presentation for PowerShell Saturday #002 coming to Charlotte, NC on September 15,
August 29, 2012Aug 29, 201208/29/12Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to ease access to system values.
How can l print out the value of %systemroot%?
a. (get-item Env:\systemroot).value
b. $env:systemroot
