powershell-2.0

I wrote a little powershell function that executes Get-EventLog against remote servers. On some servers this seems to just hang and never times out. Can I timeout a powershell function call? I see how to do this against a different process , but i want to do this for a power shell function. thanks ####################### function Get-Alert4 { param($computer) $ret = Get-EventLog application -after (get-date).addHours(-2) -computer $computer | select-string -inputobject{$_.message} -pattern "Some Error String" | select-object List return $ret } # You can implement timeouts by using a background

Can a PowerShell function determine if it is being run as part of a pipeline? I have a function which populates an array with instances of FileInfo which I would like to "yield" to the pipeline if the function is being run this way or produce some pretty output if the function is being invoked by itself from the command line. function Do-Something { $file_infos = @() # Populate $file_infos with FileInfo instances... if (INVOKED_IN_PIPELINE) { return $file_infos } else { foreach ($file_info in $file_infos) { write-host -foregroundcolor yellow $file_info.fullname } } } Basically, I'm trying to

I am searching for a list of all colors I can use in PowerShell. Since we need to provide names and no hexnumbers, it's hard to figure out if a color exists or not, at least if you don't know how :)) For example, as -foregroundcolor write-host "hello world" -foregroundcolor "red" The console colors are in an enum called [System.ConsoleColor]. You can list all the values using the GetValues static method of [Enum] [Enum]::GetValues([System.ConsoleColor]) or just [Enum]::GetValues([ConsoleColor]) Pretty grid $colors = [enum]::GetValues([System.ConsoleColor]) Foreach ($bgcolor in $colors){

This question already has an answer here: How to use PowerShell copy-item and keep structure 9 answers This script works perfectly in PowerShell. It copies all files with specific type. But I want copy files with it folders & subfolders. $dest = "C:\example" $files = Get-ChildItem -Path "C:\example" -Filter "*.msg" -Recurse foreach ($file in $files) { $file_path = Join-Path -Path $dest -ChildPath $file.Name $i = 1 while (Test-Path -Path $file_path) { $i++ $file_path = Join-Path -Path $dest -ChildPath "$($file.BaseName)_$($i)$($file.Extension)" } Copy-Item -Path $file.FullName -Destination

I am struggling really hard to get this below script worked to copy the files in folders and sub folders in the proper structure (As the source server). Lets say, there are folders mentioned below: Main Folder: File aaa, File bbb Sub Folder a: File 1, File 2, File 3 Sub Folder b: File 4, File 5, File 6 Script used: Get-ChildItem -Path \\Server1\Test -recurse | ForEach-Object { Copy-Item -LiteralPath $_.FullName -Destination \\server2\test | Get-Acl -Path $_.FullName | Set-Acl -Path "\\server2\test\$(Split-Path -Path $_.FullName -Leaf)" } Output: File aaa, File bbb Sub Folder a (Empty Folder)

I am trying to compile and a sample Helloworld.java file. I have my jdk installed in C:\Program Files\jdk1.7\bin. And I have my Helloworld.java in C:\Helloworld.java I am actually a novice in both powershell and java. I got some examples from web regarding this but many of them advice to run it like this: java.exe -classpath $Env:CLASSPATH C:\Helloworld.java But when I give this in powershell I get an error called 'CLASSPATH' is not defined even after adding it in env variables. And when I try to compile the code with the following syntax: $javac C:\Helloworld.java I get an error "javac is not