Text Editor inside PowerShell

If you’ve ever groaned about having to leave PowerShell just to edit a file, I have good news for you.

I come from a background of having a text editor at my fingertips while doing work in the command-line. If I needed to edit a file, I would simply…

Parse non-Microsoft Logs in PowerShell

I recently needed some firewall logs for east-west traffic to hunt down some of the computers in our environment that most frequently communicate with a certain group of servers.

Ctrl-Z for Extracting a ZIP File into an Unintended Location

I accidently extracted an archive file into a folder without creating a sub-folder for those new files to go into. And now they’re sitting alongside a whole bunch of other non-related files. This would typically mean that I…

Get-AllAliases

I personally find Get-Alias incredibly useful. During seasons as a sysadmin when I’m using PowerShell frequently I refer to Get-Alias both for figuring out what the full command is, as well as looking up what aliases a command has quite often. Many times though, what I’ll do is first plug in the alias…