Starting Powershell

Category 4

100

Open three websites(tabs) on Google Chrome at the same time

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Start-PRocess chrome "amazon.com","wish.com", "YouTube.com"

200

Change today's date 3Days ahead

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(Get-Date).AddDays(3)

300

Change the clock hours five ahead

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(Get-Date).AddHours(5)

400

Change the clock hours 2 behind

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(Get-Date).AddHours(-2)

500

Change the Date two months behind

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(Get-Date).AddMonth(-2)

Category 2

100

How to get the number of counts of Commands stored on your Powershell version?

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(Get-Command).count

200

Change your PS: C\ Location

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PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Set-Location -Path C:\scripts

PS C:\scripts>

300

In PowerShell, placing a $ dollar sign in front of a word (or a series of characters) does what?

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 Denotes that the word is a variable.

For example, I wanted to assign a name to a variable, I might use a command like this: $Name = 'Sam' Similarly, PowerShell allows you to map an entire command string to a variable.

400

How to get just the running service status for 

'Get-Service' 

& Open on the notepad file

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Get-Service| Where-Object status -eq 'running'|Select-Object name,status

$data = Get-Service| Where-Object status -eq 'running'|Select-Object name,status

$data |out-file .\runningService.csv 

notepad .\runningService.csv

500

Make a text display from a file onto your Admin Window PowerShell

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 Get-Content C:\FileLocation\FileName.txt

Example:

 Get-Content C:\Users\Owner\Documents\Fruit\Favorite.txt

Out-put:

"Kiwi"

Category 1

100

Script to open up a blank "NotePad" file

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Notepad

OR

Start-Process -FilePath "NotePad" -WindowStyle Maximized 

OR 

Start-Process -FilePath "NotePad" -WindowStyle Max

200

Open up a .txt file

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Start-Process -FilePath "FileName.txt" -WorkingDirectory "C:\Location" -verb open

OR

Start-Process C:\Location\FileName.txt

OR

notepad C:\Location\FileName.txt

OR

C:\Location\FileName.txt

300

How do you view PS Version, PS Edition, PS Compatible Versions, Build Version, CLR Version, WS Man Stack Version, PS Remoting Protocol Version, Serialization Version? All at once

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$PSVERSIONTABLE

400

Script: To run Powershell as an Admin within Powershell

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Start-Process -FilePath "PowerShell" -verb RunAs"

OR

Start "PowerShell" -verb Runas

500

Copying a file to Desktop?

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Copy-item -Path C:\Location\FileName.txt                  -Destination C:\Users\Desktop

Example:

Copy-Item -Path C:\scripts\transcripts\history.txt       -Destination C:\Users\Sam\Desktop

Category 3

100

What script you use to save, all the work you have done, something you are supposed to do Before you start writing scripts?

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Start-Transcript

200

What command do you use to get the trail of commands you did so far?

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Get-History

300

Get today's date

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Date

OR

Get-Date

OR

Get-Content -Path .\DateTime.txt

400

A command that shows you all the Commands names that start with the letter 'p'

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Get-Command p*

500

List all command that begins the letter 'M' on to notepad file

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$M = Get-Command m*

$M|out-file .\letterM.csv

notepad .\letterM.csv