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Saturday, January 26, 2008 4:23 PM

Hey PowerShell Guy, How Can I Sort the Contents of a Text File in Numerical Order?

I spotted a secred VBscript only spoiler here ? : How Can I Sort the Contents of a Text File in Numerical Order? Guess why they tought a PoSH version was not needed ;-) Get-Content test.txt | sort {[void]($_ -match '\d*');[int]$matches[0]} For more text
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 6:28 PM

Hey PowerShell Guy !, How Can I Remove Duplicate Values From a Pair of Text Files?

Again a Hey Scripting Guy ! translation about replacements in Text files : How Can I Remove Duplicate Values From a Pair of Text Files? To replace the 35 lines Vbscript solution with 3 loops given in the original article, the following PowerShell commands
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007 10:34 AM

Hey PowerShell Guy !, How Can I Replace Text That Includes Double Quote Marks and a Tab Character?

Some time ago but a new Hey Scripting Guy ! translation to PowerShell How can I replace text that includes double quote marks and a tab character ? the example given in this article is : Speaking of which, let’s talk scripting for awhile. As we understand
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Sunday, June 24, 2007 6:43 AM

Sorting IP addresses, PowerShell vs AWK

A question was asked in the PowerShell Newsgroup how to sort IP addresses with an AWK example for the same task given Keith Hill made a blogpost about the same Newsgroup Post using .NET here : Sorting IP addresses the PowerShell way. but I also liked
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Sunday, April 01, 2007 9:15 AM

Hey, powerShell Guy !How Can I Locate a Word in a Text File and Then Echo Back That Word and Any Remaining Text?

Another translation of an example script from a Hey scripting guy column How Can I Locate a Word in a Text File and Then Echo Back That Word and Any Remaining Text? from VbScript to PowerShell . I made these 2 different versions within minutes : Get-Content
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Saturday, March 31, 2007 8:30 PM

PowerShell examples used on ars technica

Ars technica did an article about PowerShell : Microsoft PowerShell rolled into Longhorn Server In this article two PowerShell examples from my blog are used : How to get the uptime of a specific service: $s = gwmi win32_service -filter "name = 'spooler'"
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Saturday, March 24, 2007 5:45 AM

Hey PowerShell Guy !,How Can I Parse a Tab-Delimited File and Then Save That as a Comma-Separated Values File?

from the Hey Scripting Guy article : How Can I Parse a Tab-Delimited File and Then Save That as a Comma-Separated Values File? gc tab.txt |% {$_.split("`t") |? {$_ -match '='} |% {$r = new-object object} {$r | add-Member -memberType noteProperty -name
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007 8:47 AM

Hey, PowerShell Guy! How Can I Count the Number of Characters in a Text File?

And another VbScript to PowerShell translation of a scripting Guy Column, and (as expected ) again not to much problems with it this time ;-) How Can I Count the Number of Characters in a Text File? gc Text.txt | Measure-Object -Character to do also line
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007 2:23 PM

Hey, PowerShell Guy ! How Can I Tally Up All the Words Found in a Text File?

And an other Hey Scripting guy ! translation to PowerShell How Can I Tally Up All the Words Found in a Text File? Hey, Scripting Guy! While browsing the Internet I found a script that showed me how to get a list of all the unique words in a text file.
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Monday, February 19, 2007 2:59 PM

Scripting Games 2007 Advanced PowerShell Event 6

Event 6: Give Me a (75-Column) Break PS Answer: Give Me a (75-Column) Break My Answer was not the much different only using (gc alice.txt).split() |% { To loop the words directly ( " " is default for split ) Script looks like this : $t = '' $length =
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007 2:24 PM

Hey PowerShell, how popular is this Baby Name ?

When I did see this blogpost : Baby Names, Nameless Keys, and Mumbling , I also decided to "scrape" the Social Security Administration's Popular Baby Names site I already did some webpage scraping like this in PowerShell : generate a random list of surnames
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Thursday, February 08, 2007 3:08 PM

Sesame PowerShell : Scripting Text Files

Again I will mimic a Scripting Guy article here in PowerShell, only this time from the Sesame Script series : Sesame Script: Scripting Text Files Preamble As this entry also was written as a training for the International Winter Scripting Games , And
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