Powershell

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.

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…

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…

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…