What I learned about powershell in 2017, according to my twitter archive

$Content = get-content somefile.txt | out-string

…preserves the line breaks in the text file

set backupdir=C:\temp\vim set directory=C:\temp\vim

#TodayILearned that the batch command equivalent of the bash sleep is Timeout

#TodayILearned that you can replace a pattern in Powershell: “images\Leopold_I_of_Belgium 226x300” -replace “[0-9][0-9]x[0-9][0-9]”,""

#TodayILearned that if you put a ValidateSet on a #Powershell cmdlet parameter, then ISE Tab-completion will pick it up. Very handy!

#TodayILearned you can omit the Get- from Powershell commands…‘tho just because you can…doesnt mean you should!

#TodayILearned that you can set a CSV in a here-string and turn it into an object.

Handy for small test datasets in @PSPester

#TodayILearned that ‘show-command’ in Powershell creates a nice little GUI window for a function or cmdlet community.idera.com/powershel…