mattypenny

Install hugo

PS C:\matt> choco install hugo -confirm

Output:

Chocolatey v0.10.15
[Pending] Removing incomplete install for 'hugo'
Installing the following packages:
hugo
By installing you accept licenses for the packages.

hugo v0.62.1 [Approved]
hugo package files install completed. Performing other installation steps.
Downloading hugo 64 bit
  from 'https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.62.1/hugo_0.62.1_Windows-64bit.zip'

Progress: 0% - Saving 84.56 KB of 12.64 MB
Progress: 1% - Saving 169.56 KB of 12.64 MB
Progress: 1% - Saving 254.56 KB of 12.64 MB
Progress: 2% - Saving 339.56 KB of 12.64 MB
<snip>

Progress: 95% - Saving 12.03 MB of 12.64 MB
Progress: 96% - Saving 12.17 MB of 12.64 MB
Progress: 97% - Saving 12.33 MB of 12.64 MB
Progress: 98% - Saving 12.47 MB of 12.64 MB
Progress: 99% - Saving 12.63 MB of 12.64 MB
Progress: 100% - Completed download of C:\Users\matty_bpxbglc\AppData\Local\Temp\chocolatey\hugo\0.62.1\hugo_0.62.1_Wi ndows-64bit.zip (12.64 MB).
Download of hugo_0.62.1_Windows-64bit.zip (12.64 MB) completed.
Hashes match.
Extracting C:\Users\matty_bpxbglc\AppData\Local\Temp\chocolatey\hugo\0.62.1\hugo_0.62.1_Windows-64bit.zip to C:\Progra mData\chocolatey\lib\hugo\tools...
C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\hugo\tools
 ShimGen has successfully created a shim for hugo.exe
 The install of hugo was successful.
  Software installed to 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\hugo\tools'

Chocolatey installed 1/1 packages. 
 See the log for details (C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\logs\chocolatey.log).

End of output

Check hugo install

This didn’t work….

PS C:\matt> hugo --version

Output:

hugo : Error: unknown flag: --version
At line:1 char:1
+ hugo --version
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (Error: unknown flag: --version:String) [], RemoteException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandError
 
Usage:
  hugo [flags]
  hugo [command]
Available Commands:
  config      Print the site configuration
  convert     Convert your content to different formats

End of output

…because it’s just:

hugo version

Output: Hugo Static Site Generator v0.62.1-A1518704 windows/amd64 BuildDate: 2020-01-01T17:39:35Z End of output

Create a site

PS C:\matt> hugo new site mattypenny.net

Output:

Congratulations! Your new Hugo site is created in C:\matt\mattypenny.net.

Just a few more steps and you're ready to go:

1. Download a theme into the same-named folder.
   Choose a theme from https://themes.gohugo.io/ or
   create your own with the "hugo new theme <THEMENAME>" command.
2. Perhaps you want to add some content. You can add single files
   with "hugo new <SECTIONNAME>\<FILENAME>.<FORMAT>".
3. Start the built-in live server via "hugo server".

Visit https://gohugo.io/ for quickstart guide and full documentation.

End of output

Tried to run git init

PS C:\matt\mattypenny.net> git init

Output:

git : The term 'git' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check 
the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ git init
+ ~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (git:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

End of output

…and found it wasn’t installed.

I did find an executable:

PS C:\matt\mattypenny.net> C:\Users\matty\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\bin\git.exe init

Output:

Initialized empty Git repository in C:/matt/mattypenny.net/.git/
C:\Users\matty\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\bin\git.exe : warning: 'C:\ProgramData/Git/config' has a dubious owner: 
'matty'.
At line:1 char:1
+ C:\Users\matty\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\bin\git.exe init
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (warning: 'C:\Pr...owner: 'matty'.:String) [], RemoteException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandError
 
For security reasons, it is therefore ignored.
To fix this, please transfer ownership to an admininstrator.

End of output

Re-installed git

PS C:\matt\mattypenny.net> choco install git

Output:

Chocolatey v0.10.15
Installing the following packages:
git
By installing you accept licenses for the packages.

Progress: Downloading git.install 2.24.1.2... 0%
Progress: Downloading git.install 2.24.1.2... 0%
Progress: Downloading git.install 2.24.1.2... 0%
Progress: Downloading git.install 2.24.1.2... 0%
Progress: Downloading git.install 2.24.1.2... 0%
Progress: Downloading git.install 2.24.1.2... 0%
Progress: Downloading git.install 2.24.1.2... 0%
Progress: Downloading git.install 2.24.1.2... 0%
Progress: Downloading git.install 2.24.1.2... 0%


Progress: Downloading git 2.24.1.2... 76%
Progress: Downloading git 2.24.1.2... 97%
Progress: Downloading git 2.24.1.2... 100%

git.install v2.24.1.2 [Approved]
git.install package files install completed. Performing other installation steps.
The package git.install wants to run 'chocolateyInstall.ps1'.
Note: If you don't run this script, the installation will fail.
Note: To confirm automatically next time, use '-y' or consider:
choco feature enable -n allowGlobalConfirmation

End of output ….and it hung after all the output above

I think that despite the stuff about chocolateyInstall.ps1, git was now installed.

I switched to got bash for the new bit

Setting up git

$ cd /c/matt/website

$ git submodule add -b master git@github.com:mattypenny/mattypenny.github.io.git public

Output:

Cloning into 'C:/matt/website/public'...
git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
fatal: clone of 'git@github.com:mattypenny/mattypenny.github.io.git' into submodule path 'C:/matt/website/public' failed

matty@sandie MINGW64 /c/matt/website (master)

End of output

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "me@gmail.com"

Output:

Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/c/Users/matty/.ssh/id_rsa):
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /c/Users/matty/.ssh/id_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in /c/Users/matty/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
SHA256:blah-de-blah
The key's randomart image is:
+---[RSA 4096]----+
|:) snip          |
+----[SHA256]-----+

End of output

$ ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Output:

Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

End of output

$ eval $(ssh-agent -s)

Output:

Agent pid 1798

End of output

$ ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Output:

Enter passphrase for /c/Users/matty/.ssh/id_rsa:
Identity added: /c/Users/matty/.ssh/id_rsa (me@gmail.com)

End of output

$ clip < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

$ ssh -T git@github.com

Output:

Hi mattypenny! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access.

End of output

Set up the github.io repo as the master for the hugo ‘public’ folder

$ git submodule add -b master git@github.com:mattypenny/mattypenny.github.io.git public

Output:

Cloning into 'C:/matt/website/public'...
Warning: Permanently added the RSA host key for IP address '140.82.118.3' to the list of known hosts.
warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.
fatal: 'origin/master' is not a commit and a branch 'master' cannot be created from it
Unable to checkout submodule 'public'

End of output

Push it to github

$ cd public

$ git add .

Output:

warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in blog/hello-world-5/index.html.
The file will have its original line endings in your working directory
warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in blog/index.xml.
The file will have its original line endings in your working directory
warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in categories/index.xml.
The file will have its original line endings in your working directory
warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in index.xml.
The file will have its original line endings in your working directory
warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in sitemap.xml.
The file will have its original line endings in your working directory
warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in tags/index.xml.
The file will have its original line endings in your working directory

End of output

$ git commit -m 'First build'

Output:

[master (root-commit) f38d607] First build
 46 files changed, 2676 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 android-chrome-192x192.png
 create mode 100644 android-chrome-512x512.png
 create mode 100644 apple-touch-icon.png
 create mode 100644 blog/hello-world-5/index.html
 create mode 100644 blog/index.html
 create mode 100644 blog/index.xml
 create mode 100644 browserconfig.xml
 create mode 100644 categories/index.html
 create mode 100644 categories/index.xml
 create mode 100644 css/fonts/miriamlibre-bold.woff
 create mode 100644 css/fonts/miriamlibre-bold.woff2
 create mode 100644 css/images/arrow_effect.svg
 create mode 100644 css/images/icon-tick.svg
 create mode 100644 css/images/stripe.svg
 create mode 100644 css/prism.css
 create mode 100644 css/styles.css
 create mode 100644 favicon-16x16.png
 create mode 100644 favicon-32x32.png
 create mode 100644 favicon-96x96.png
 create mode 100644 favicon.ico
 create mode 100644 images/CreateGithubPages010.png
 create mode 100644 images/CreateGithubPages020.png
 create mode 100644 images/browser-chrome-android.svg
 create mode 100644 images/browser-chrome.svg
 create mode 100644 images/browser-edge.svg
 create mode 100644 images/browser-firefox-android.svg
 create mode 100644 images/browser-firefox.svg
 create mode 100644 images/browser-ie.svg
 create mode 100644 images/browser-opera.svg
 create mode 100644 images/browser-safari-ios.svg
 create mode 100644 images/browser-safari.svg
 create mode 100644 images/icon-info.svg
 create mode 100644 images/icon-tag.svg
 create mode 100644 images/icon-warning.svg
 create mode 100644 images/logo.svg
 create mode 100644 index.html
 create mode 100644 index.xml
 create mode 100644 js/dom-scripts.js
 create mode 100644 js/prism.js
 create mode 100644 js/service-worker-registration.js
 create mode 100644 mstile-150x150.png
 create mode 100644 safari-pinned-tab.svg
 create mode 100644 site.webmanifest
 create mode 100644 sitemap.xml
 create mode 100644 tags/index.html
 create mode 100644 tags/index.xml

End of output

$ git push origin master

Output:

Enumerating objects: 57, done.
Counting objects: 100% (57/57), done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (56/56), done.
Writing objects: 100% (57/57), 184.08 KiB | 1.96 MiB/s, done.
Total 57 (delta 10), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (10/10), done.
To github.com:mattypenny/mattypenny.github.io.git
 * [new branch]      master -> master

End of output

Pushing the source to github

Tried this:

git push origin master

…but it failed

Output:

git push origin master
fatal: 'origin' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

End of output

Went back to the github instructions

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then did this:

cd /c/matt/website (master)
git remote add origin https://github.com/mattypenny/website.git

Then the push worked

$ git push origin master

Output:

Enumerating objects: 346, done.
Counting objects: 100% (346/346), done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (336/336), done.
Writing objects: 100% (346/346), 8.75 MiB | 1.71 MiB/s, done.
Total 346 (delta 29), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (29/29), done.
To https://github.com/mattypenny/website.git
 * [new branch]      master -> master

End of output

For ease of finding, I’m separated out powershell learnings from general trivia

Dec 20, 2019

#TodayILearned that -ExcludeProperty only works if used in conjunction with -property e.g.

get-AdUser mattypenny -properties * | select-object -Property * -ExcludeProperty userCertificate

#Powershell

Dec 3, 2019

#TodayILearned that to show all the commits (including messages) for a particular file you do

git log --follow -- <filename>

Dec 2, 2019

#TodayILearned that this inserts today’s date in vim

:put=strftime('%d %B %Y')

Nov 13, 2019

#TodayILearned that if you are daft enough to have a begin ‘bit’ without process and end ‘bits’ in a Powershell function, then it returns:

"Missing closing '}' in statement block or type definition."

It’s perhaps not the most useful error message for this particular case…

Oct 22, 2019

#TodayILearned this bit of Powershell strips out the ‘Registered Trade Mark’ (little R in a circle) symbol from a string.

In this case the string was the caption for the Windows OS in Server 2008).

[string]$RegisterMark = [char]174
$Caption = $Caption.replace($RegisterMark,'')

Oct 22, 2019

#TodayILearned how to handle quotes when generating Powershell

foreach ($Name in "spider stacy","cait o'riordan") {

    $Name = $Name -replace "'","''"

    $String = @"
    get-ADUser -filter {Name -eq '$Name'}
"@

    Invoke-Expression -Command $String | select name

}

Oct 17, 2019

#TodayILearned that @adbertram has a marvellous function for doing dynamic ValidateSets

Mastering PowerShell Parameter Validation with Dynamic Methods

Oct 15, 2019

#TodayILearned that ‘globalisation’ is spelt differently in different countries

(via @DoctorDns in the first #Powershell Conference book….which is fab)

https://lexico.com/en/definition/globalization

Oct 14, 2019

#TodayILearned to do Ctrl-Alt-Del on a Remote Desktop

• Start, then ‘osk’ for on-screen keyboard
• hold Ctrl-Alt on the ‘off-screen keyboard’
• click on Del on the on-screen one

How to CTRL + ALT + DEL in Remote Desktop on Windows - Guiding Tech

Oct 9, 2019

#TodayILearned that you can use a Powershell class to implement a dynamic ValidateSet for a parameter

My excitement at discovering this will possibly not be shared by everyone on Twitter

about Functions Advanced Parameters - PowerShell | Microsoft Learn

Jun 20, 2019

#TodayILearned these are equivalent, I think

Invoke-Pester -script .\diagnostics\simple\Server1.tests.ps1 -PassThru | select -ExpandProperty TestResult | select Result, Name

and

Invoke-OperationValidation -testFilePath .\diagnostics\simple\Server1.tests.ps1 -IncludePesterOutput

Jun 19, 2019

#TodayILearned that there is an @ansible module to apply windows updates (following on from @jonathanmedd’s talk at @PSSouthampton last night)

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_updates_module.html#win-updates-module

Jun 5, 2019

#TodayILearned that you can pass all the parameters from one Powershell function to another in the built-in $PSBoundParameters variable

Feb 27, 2019

Replying to

I never knew you could do this either:

invoke-pester -script testscript.tests.ps1 *> c:\temp\TestResults.txt

The star re-directs all streams

#TodayILearned

Feb 27, 2019

#TodayILearned that if you want to re-direct the screen output from @PSPester to a file, then you use a ‘6’

invoke-pester -script testscript.tests.ps1 6> c:\temp\TestResults.txt

Feb 26, 2019

#TodayILearned that VS @Code has really nice diff functionality.

Ctrl-Shift-P then File: Compare Active File With…

Jan 1, 2019

#TodayILearned that git status -s gives a more usefully formatted view of changes in a repository

Dec 11, 2018

#TodayILearnedthat in Powershell to replace ‘carriage return’ (I think…it renders as \r in my setup), you have to put the `r in double quotes not single quotes

$BodyText = $BodyText.replace("`r"," “)

Nov 8, 2018

#TodayILearned that you can use [ValidateSet] with powershell variables other than parameters

(I’m hoping this will, in this case, guard against typo’s later in the code)

Nov 8, 2018

#TodayILearned you can set a VS @code setting as follows:

“files.defaultlanguage”: “powershell”

….to have new files default to Powershell

(via @vhusker )

jacobbenson.azurewebsites.net/index.php…

Oct 15, 2018

#TodayILearned that the little outline thing in VS @code is called a ‘minimap’ and to turn it off you do:

Ctrl-Shift-P,

View:Toggle Minimap

Oct 12, 2018

#TodayILearned that you can use -lt and -gt with letters.

i.e. to get names in the first half of the alphabet

$x | where name -lt ‘N’

(via @Idera_software ) From blog.idera.com

Sep 25, 2018

#TodayILearned that you can slide between the tabs in VS @code with this skinny semi-hidden slider

Jul 31, 2018

Trying to test if a bit of text contains a backtick in #Powershell, I couldn’t get -like “``” to work, but this seems to:

if ($Line.Contains('`'))

The bit in brackets is single quote, back-tick, single quote

#TodayILearned

Jun 22, 2018

#TodayILearned that typing ‘code’ in bash opens VS Code

May 29, 2018

#TodayILearned that in #Powershell on linux, although you can cd to a folder where the slashes go in the ‘wrong’ direction, you have to get the slashes ‘right’ for [http://System.IO.Path] to work

May 22, 2018

#TodayILearned (or more accurately, I think re-learned!) that the Powershell $Env:PSModulePath separators on Linux are colons not semi-colons

May 8, 2018

#TodayILearned Quote Cody Konior @codykonior

May 8, 2018

Super handy #powershell tip. When you pipe an object to Format-List it will cut arrays off and show then like Name : {A, B, C…}. You can actually stop that with $FormatEnumerationLimit = -1.

Apr 26, 2018

#TodayILearned that if you’re running #Powershell on @ubuntu you need to get the case ‘right’ in your $Env:PSModulePath

I guess because it’s a $Env variable the case sensitivity is determined by the Environment not the shell?

Apr 24, 2018

#TodayILearned that

Invoke-item .

….will bring up the file manager gui on @ubuntu powershell, as it would on windows

Apr 18, 2018

#TodayILearned that you have to do:

Install-WindowsFeature RSAT-AD-PowerShell

to get the ActiveDirectory module in Server2016

(via ntweekly.com/2016/07/0…)

Apr 9, 2018

#TodayILearned that managed service accounts don’t show up in Get-ADUser - you have to use Get-AdServiceAccount

#PowerShell

Mar 29, 2018

#TodayILearned that you have to stick a $ on the end of the Managed Service Account name for the @SQLServer installer to recognize it

It need a dollar, dollar a dollar is what it need

Mar 21, 2018

#TodayILearned that on older SQL installations which don’t have sqlps, you have to do:

add-pssnapin SQLServerCmdletSnapin100

and optionally

add-pssnapin SQLServerProviderSnapin100

#Powershell

Mar 1, 2018

#TodayILearned that

Where-Object : Cannot bind parameter ‘FilterScript’. Cannot convert the “Name” value of type “System.String” to type “System.Management.Automation.ScriptBlock”.

..typically means I’m running on an olde worlde version of Powershell

Feb 20, 2018

#TodayILearned the magic of ‘gk’ and ‘gj’, which go up and down within a wrapped line in vim

Feb 1, 2018

#TodayILearned that you can use a bar (or ‘pipe symbol’) to enter more than one ‘ex’ command in Vim i.e.

:%s/[‘’]/'/g | %s/SQLData/sql_data/g

Bonjour tout-le-monde!

Problem

I was trying to parameterize a Pester script. The script looked like this:

param (
   [string]$ComputerName,
   [string]$IPAddress
)

write-dbg "$ComputerName: "
write-dbg "$IPAddress: "

Describe "$ComputerName is visible" {

    "It is ping-able" {
       {test-connection $ComputerName -count 1} | Should Not Throw

       $(test-connection $ComputerName -count 1 | Measure-Object).count | Should Be 1
    }

}

…but passing the parameters wasn’t working.

Solution

The problem was that I was calling the script as follows

$ Invoke-Pester  @{PAth = c:\pester\diagnostics\simple\StandardDomainContoller.tests.ps1; Parameters=@{ComputerName = "server1.here.co.uk";IPAddress = "17.6.5.1""}}

…and the Path variable needs quotes:

$ Invoke-Pester  @{PAth = 'c:\pester\diagnostics\simple\StandardDomainContoller.tests.ps1'; Parameters=@{ComputerName = "server1.here.co.uk";IPAddress = "17.6.5.1""}}

This is a slight tweak to code at: http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f128/solved-windows-7-batch-getting-day-of-week-moved-from-vista-7-a-565632.html

FOR /F "skip=1" %%A IN ('WMIC Path Win32_LocalTime Get DayOfWeek' ) DO (
    if %%A GEQ 1 set DOW=%%A
)
echo %DOW%

This is a slight tweak to code at: http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f128/solved-windows-7-batch-getting-day-of-week-moved-from-vista-7-a-565632.html

FOR /F "skip=1" %%A IN ('WMIC Path Win32_LocalTime Get DayOfWeek' ) DO (
    if %%A GEQ 1 set DOW=%%A
)
echo %DOW%

Adele has so far used her age as the title of her LPs. So, her LPs have been called:

• 19
• 21
• 25

Using Paul’s age for the album title, I think the Beatles albums would have been as follows:

• 20
• 21
• 22
• 22 (again)
• 23
• 23 (again)
• 24
• 24 (again)
• 26
• 26 (again)
• 27
• 27 (again)

Paul’s date of birth was 18 June 1942

The release dates are taken from The Beatles Albums (by Date)

Pic: By The_Fabs.JPG: United Press International (UPI Telephoto)Cropping and retouching: User:Indopug and User:Misterweissderivative work: Zakke (The_Fabs.JPG) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

To adjust some of the properties of a SQL Server Reporting Services instance , for example, how long the execution logs are retained, or whether or not you display meaningful error messages to the user, you have to do the following:

• go into SQL Server Management Studio,
• connect to the SSRS instance, then
• right-click on the instance name and
• select Properties from the drop-down menu

However 9 times out of 10 when I do this (in my defence, I don’t do it very often….) I find that properties is greyed out, despite having logged on as a privileged user.

The ‘fix’ for this is fairly straightforward - you have to run SSMS with ‘Run as Administrator’ i.e. right-click on the SSMS icon or menu option and opt to ‘Run as Administrator’