powershell-2.0

I have a powershell script ( setup.ps1 ), that we use as the entry point for our development environment setup scripts. It takes a parameter: param( [Parameter(Position=0,HelpMessage="The targets to run.")] [Alias("t")] [string[]] $Targets = "Help" ) When I run PS > get-help .\setup.ps1 -detailed in the parameters section, my help message doesn't appear: PARAMETERS -Targets <String[]> What do I need to do to get my parameter help messages to display? You put a certain style of comment at the top of the file that can be decoded by the PowerShell help system. Here's an example: <# .SYNOPSIS .

I am trying to use PowerShell to do a batch conversion of Word Docx to PDF - using a script found on this site: http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/03/24/weekend-scripter-convert-word-documents-to-pdf-files-with-powershell.aspx # Acquire a list of DOCX files in a folder $Files=GET-CHILDITEM "C:\docx2pdf\*.DOCX" $Word=NEW-OBJECT –COMOBJECT WORD.APPLICATION Foreach ($File in $Files) { # open a Word document, filename from the directory $Doc=$Word.Documents.Open($File.fullname) # Swap out DOCX with PDF in the Filename $Name=($Doc.Fullname).replace("docx","pdf") # Save this

How can I convert an array object to string? I tried: $a = "This", "Is", "a", "cat" [system.String]::Join(" ", $a) with no luck. What are different possibilities in PowerShell? Roman Kuzmin $a = 'This', 'Is', 'a', 'cat' Using double quotes (and optionally use the separator $ofs ) # This Is a cat "$a" # This-Is-a-cat $ofs = '-' # after this all casts work this way until $ofs changes! "$a" Using operator join # This-Is-a-cat $a -join '-' # ThisIsacat -join $a Using conversion to [string] # This Is a cat [string]$a # This-Is-a-cat $ofs = '-' [string]$a Jeremy Saunders I found that piping the

I am trying to remove all the lines from a text file that contains a partial string using the below PowerShell code: Get-Content C:\new\temp_*.txt | Select-String -pattern "H|159" -notmatch | Out-File C:\new\newfile.txt The actual string is H|159|28-05-2005|508|xxx , it repeats in the file multiple times, and I am trying to match only the first part as specified above. Is that correct? Currently I am getting empty as output. Am I missing something? Escape the | character using a backtick get-content c:\new\temp_*.txt | select-string -pattern 'H`|159' -notmatch | Out-File c:\new\newfile.txt