For example $people = @( @(‘adam’, ’24’, ‘M’) @(‘andy’, ’20’, ‘M’) @(‘alex’, ’30’, ‘M’) @(‘ava’, ’25’, ‘F’) ) foreach($person in $people | where ($person[1] -lt ’25’) -and ($person[2] -eq ‘M’)) and this should select adam and andy… >Solution : The syntax you should use for your Where-Object statement would be: $people = @( @(‘adam’, ’24’,… Read More How do I do foreach loop with a where clause for a multidimensional array in Powershell?

Basically I have an array that looks something like areaCodes = @ ( @("310", "LA"), @("212", "NY"), @("702", "LV") ) I would like to have it so that for example if I have a variable $code = $212 Find if it is in the list, and if is, get the value associated with it. Something… Read More How do I find and get value from multi dimensional array in powershell?

I’m writing a PowerShell script that need to do the following task : Open an url then close the windows that got open Start-Process -FilePath msedge http://127.0.0.1:62354/now Start-Sleep -Seconds 1 get-process msedge | %{ $_.closemainwindow() } I’m facing 2 issues : -First one : is I actually force to open the url with Edge so… Read More Script that open an url then close the browser

I’m looking for a way out for converting hashtable to base64 in powershell. Not sure that’s possible or not. Can anyone help me on this? Strings can be converted to base64 via byte. I’m seeing only string conversion examples. Please help me to figure this out to proceed further. Thanks. >Solution : Convert the hash… Read More Hashtable to base64 conversation in powershell

Given: PowerShell 5.1 or above Cmdlet Get-Service Windows OS Windows Services How would you programmatically report if a Window Services is Stopped? >Solution : If you want to start them all, use the Where-Object cmdlet to filter the list of services so you only get those that: Are not running, and Are not disabled Then… Read More How would you programmatically report which Windows Services are not running?

I am trying to run a powershell script that installs some software on a bunch of remote servers. I am using the -Asjob option to run them synchronously. I’m also using for loop to run the remote commands on each server, but i want to write a "Done" log file locally where i am running… Read More Powershell running invoke-command on several servers using -Asjob but log completion log locally

I looked online and found a command similar to this Get-Content .\aws_hosts | Where-Object {$_ -notmatch ‘([^\.0-9])’} | Set-Content out.txt All that did was copy the line to an out.txt file. I’m trying to figure out how to delete a line from the .\aws_hosts file. In my aws_hosts file, I want to specifically delete the… Read More How can I delete a line from a file in Powershell?

I’m trying to write an IP address (It’s just a random test IP I used) to a file using powershell’s Write-Output and it’s writing the IP address to the file but adding null values after every character. Is there any way to do this properly, without the null characters? >Solution : I’m not sure why,… Read More How to output IP address to file with powershell "Write-Output" command without null values

I am trying to delete an image based on the dimensions of said image, but I’ve run into a problem. I am trying to delete images whose length or width are less than 490 pixels. However, the code I have tried throws an error for every item. This is the error: Remove-Item : Cannot remove… Read More How to delete an image file based on its dimensions with PowerShell

I am having a problem executing a powershell script where I want to point to different versions of a bat file based on some arguments Hard coding the path as follows works with no issues: & ‘C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2022a\bin\mcc.bat’ -W $command -T link:exe … but replacing a folder name with a variable causes it to fail:… Read More Execute a bat file with a variable name in the path