I am fully aware that I have been writing a lot of posts recently but, in my defense, work has recently left me unsupervised. This means I’ve had lots of time to spend working on fun PowerShell side projects, which naturally also means more blogs. As part of my current pet project, I had been …
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More About AST
AST can be ugly, and confusing, and it’s hard to know what to look at. This article attempts to cover some of the more useful AST classes and offer some ideas on how to use them.
Parsing PowerShell – A Follow-Up
Previously, I wrote an article on using AST and a specific ‘gotcha’ that I encountered, as well as how to work around it. If you haven’t read that article, I’d encourage you to do so. The Trouble with AST in PowerShell Today, I’m back with a new wrinkle, another work around, and a bit of …
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Read Text Content (w/o Unzipping)
What’s this? Another post? Yep, I’m on a roll. This particular installment will be relatively quick, as such things go, but I hope it will also be valuable. Use Case: View text in a Zip file, without extracting the file to disk First off, if you just want to know how to extract or compress …
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The Trouble with AST in PowerShell
Ok, if you are new to PowerShell, you aren’t going to have a clue what this ‘AST’ thing even is. AST has been covered extensively by others in the past, so I won’t go into details here (just Google PowerShell and ast). In brief, AST stands for Abstract Syntax Tree, and its purpose is to …
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All Your PSBase Are Belong to Us!!
If you’ve been working with PowerShell for any real length of time, you know that PowerShell is deeply tied to the .NET framework. If you weren’t aware of that, perhaps because you only use a handful of cmdlets for limited and specialized purposes, or only use scripts posted online, well…surprise!! Everything in PowerShell, at the …
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PowerShell Module Adventures
So, in my last post I wrote about ESAE, and introduced everyone to my budding deployment module, which is still available on my GitHub if you want to check it out. No, unfortunately that project is not yet finished, and the module is still very late-stage alpha. All I can say is…well…consulting is hard sometimes. …
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I’m Still Here, ESAE, and Other Stuff
So I know it’s been a while since I posted…right after I got started, I up and stopped posting for…well…months. The truth is there were quite a number of things that got in the way for a bit. First, I went on a long overdue vacation to Hawaii (highly recommend btw) back in mid-February. Right …
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