PowerShell 1.0 (final) released!
My new favorite tool has finally been fully released for Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2003 SP1! The Powershell blog gives the details. If you’re at all a fan of command line scripting, you’ll love PowerShell.
If you’re new to PowerShell, my first recommendation is the ArsTechnica guide to Microsoft Command Shell (one of the codenames, along with Monad and MSH, that was used to describe PowerShell before it’s wider release). Other good resources are the Channel9 Wiki Windows PowerShell QuickStart, the PowerShell blog itself, and the PowerShell for Fun blog.
January 25th, 2007 at 8:20 am
The only problem I have with PowerShell is that it’s not going to be used by as many people as I’d like it to be
That said, I haven’t used it as much as I would like to, and I’m going to check out those links! I saw they released a version for Vista as well.
My little tip (that I just emailed to you…):
If you’re just looking for a command to run again, F7 brings up a list of commands from the current session that you can select from, F8 seems to function just like the up key, and F9 will prompt for a specific command number (which you can find from F7).
January 25th, 2007 at 10:55 am
That’s a neat trick with the F7 key…. You can also run the Get-History cmdlet. The good thing about Get-History vs. F7 is you can output it to a text file:
Get-History > foo.txt
And from there it’s much easier to save to your commands to a new script file or your $profile file.