PowerShell

Essentials:
For The Busy Admin(Part 2 of 5)

Presenter: Ed Wilson, MCSE, MCT, MCDBA, MCSD

Microsoft Scripting Guy
Author of: Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best
Practices, MS Press
Heard it through the
PipeLine:
OR: How to compound
PowerShell commands for fun
and profit
What is the pipeline?
Allows ability to easily work at command
line
To retrieve items and work on them
To filter out data
To persist information
To format output
Certain PowerShell cmdlets automatically
accept input from other cmdlets
Get-process notepad | stop-process
Use Get-Help on cmdlet to find if accept pipeline
input
Retrieving items and working
on them
Working with processes
Get-Process
Get-Process notepad, calc
Stop-Process
Get-Process notepad, calc | Stop-Process
Start-Process
"notepad", "calc" | foreach { start-process $_ }
Wait-Process
Get-Process notepad | Wait-Process ; dir
Demo: Retrieving and working
w/ items
Working with processes
Get-Process
Get-Process notepad, calc
Stop-Process
Get-Process notepad, calc | Stop-Process
Start-Process
"notepad", "calc" | foreach { start-process $_ }
Wait-Process
Get-Process notepad | Wait-Process ; dir
Pipe to filter
Filter processes using too much CPU or Memory
Get-Process | where { $_.pm -gt 20MB }
Get-Process | where { $_.cpu -gt 10 }
Sort processes
Get-Process | sort cpu Descending
Get-Process | sort cpu -Descending | select -First 3
Get-Process | sort processname Unique
Sort event log entries
Get-EventLog -LogName application -EntryType error | sort
source
Get-EventLog -LogName application -EntryType error | sort
source | group source
Get-EventLog -LogName application -EntryType error | sort
source | group source | sort count Descending
Demo: Pipe to filter
Filter processes using too much CPU or Memory
Get-Process | where { $_.pm -gt 20MB }
Get-Process | where { $_.cpu -gt 10 }
Sort processes
Get-Process | sort cpu Descending
Get-Process | sort cpu -Descending | select -First 3
Get-Process | sort processname Unique
Sort event log entries
Get-EventLog -LogName application -EntryType error | sort
source
Get-EventLog -LogName application -EntryType error | sort
source | group source
Get-EventLog -LogName application -EntryType error | sort
source | group source | sort count -Descending
Filter to the left when
you can
Dont do this:
Get-EventLog -LogName application | where
{ $_.timegenerated -gt [datetime]"2/28/12" }
When you can do this:
Get-EventLog -LogName application -after 2/28/12
Not just ease of use
measure-command {Get-EventLog -LogName
application | where { $_.timegenerated -gt
[datetime]"2/28/12" } }
Measure-command {Get-EventLog -LogName
application -after 2/28/12 }
Demo: Filter to the left when
you can
Dont do this:
Get-EventLog -LogName application | where
{ $_.timegenerated -gt [datetime]"2/28/12" }
When you can do this:
Get-EventLog -LogName application -after 2/28/12
Not just ease of use
measure-command {Get-EventLog -LogName
application | where { $_.timegenerated -gt
[datetime]"2/28/12" } }
Measure-command {Get-EventLog -LogName
application -after 2/28/12 }
Pipe to present
Format-Table
get-process | format-table name, id
get-process | format-table name, id AutoSize
get-process | format-table name, id -GroupBy
name -AutoSize
Format-List
get-process | Format-List *Format-Wide
Get-Service | where { $_.status -eq "running" } |
Format-List *
Format-Wide
Get-Process | Format-Wide name
Get-Process | Format-Wide name -Column 3
Get-Process | Format-Wide name -AutoSize
Demo: Pipe to present
Format-Table
get-process | format-table name, id
get-process | format-table name, id AutoSize
get-process | format-table name, id -GroupBy
name -AutoSize
Format-List
get-process | Format-List *Format-Wide
Get-Service | where { $_.status -eq "running" } |
Format-List *
Format-Wide
Get-Process | Format-Wide name
Get-Process | Format-Wide name -Column 3
Get-Process | Format-Wide name -AutoSize
Pipeline to persist information
Out-File
get-process | format-table name, id AutoSize |
out-file c:\fso\processtable.txt
Export-CSV
gps | select name, id | Export-Csv -Path
c:\fso\processCSV.csv
gps | select name, id | Export-Csv -Path
c:\fso\processCSV.csv -NoTypeInformation
Export-CliXML
GPS | Export-Clixml -Path c:\fso\proc.xml
$a = Import-Clixml C:\fso\proc.xml
Demo: Pipeline to persist
information
Out-File
get-process | format-table name, id AutoSize |
out-file c:\fso\processtable.txt
Export-CSV
gps | select name, id | Export-Csv -Path
c:\fso\processCSV.csv
gps | select name, id | Export-Csv -Path
c:\fso\processCSV.csv -NoTypeInformation
Export-CliXML
GPS | Export-Clixml -Path c:\fso\proc.xml
$a = Import-Clixml C:\fso\proc.xml
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