scripts

Scripts from the Scripts repo.

Clipboard

• Convert-ClipboardTsvToHtml.ps1: Parses TSV clipboard data into HTML table data which is copied back to the clipboard.
• Import-ClipboardTsv.ps1: Parses TSV clipboard data into objects.

Command

• Get-CommandParameters.ps1: Returns the parameters of the specified cmdlet.
• Get-CommandPath.ps1: Locates a command.
• Hide-Command.ps1: Make a command unavailable.
• Invoke-CommandWithParams.ps1: Execute a command by using matching dictionary entries as parameters.
• Use-Command.ps1: Checks for the existence of the given command, and adds if missing and a source is defined.

Configuration

• Get-ConfigConnectionStringBuilders.ps1: Return named connection string builders for connection strings in a config file.
• Get-NuGetConfigs.ps1: Returns the available NuGet configuration files, in order of preference.
• Use-NetMailConfig.ps1: Use .NET configuration to set defaults for Send-MailMessage.

Console

• Disable-AnsiColor.ps1: Disables ANSI terminal colors.
• Enable-AnsiColor.ps1: Enables ANSI terminal colors.
• Get-ConsoleHistory.ps1: Returns the DOSKey-style console command history (up arrow or F8).
• Remove-ConsoleHistory.ps1: Removes an entry from the DOSKey-style console command history (up arrow or F8).
• Set-ConsoleColorTheme.ps1: Overrides ConsoleClass window color palette entries with a preset color theme.

Credential

• Export-SecretVault.ps1: Exports secret vault content.
• Get-CachedCredential.ps1: Return a credential from secure storage, or prompt the user for it if not found.
• Import-SecretVault.ps1: Imports secrets into secret vaults.
• Remove-CachedCredential.ps1: Removes a credential from secure storage.

Data

• Limit-Digits.ps1: Rounds off a number to the requested number of digits.
• Measure-Values.ps1: Provides analysis of supplied values.

Data encoding

• ConvertFrom-Base64.ps1: Converts base64-encoded text to bytes or text.
• ConvertFrom-Hex.ps1: Convert a string of hexadecimal digits into a byte array.
• ConvertTo-Base64.ps1: Converts bytes or text to base64-encoded text.

Data formats

• ConvertTo-PowerShell.ps1: Serializes complex content into PowerShell literals.
• Format-EscapedUrl.ps1: Escape URLs more aggressively.
• New-Jwt.ps1: Generates a JSON Web Token (JWT)
• Split-Uri.ps1: Splits a URI into component parts.
• Test-FileTypeMagicNumber.ps1: Tests for a given common file type by magic number.
• Test-Jwt.ps1: Determines whether a string is a valid JWT.
• Test-MagicNumber.ps1: Tests a file for a “magic number” (identifying sequence of bytes) at a given location.
• Test-Uri.ps1: Determines whether a string is a valid URI.
• Test-Windows1252.ps1: Determines whether a file contains Windows-1252 bytes that are invalid UTF-8 bytes.

Database

• ConvertFrom-DataRow.ps1: Converts a DataRow object to a PSObject, Hashtable, or single value.
• Export-DatabaseScripts.ps1: Exports MS SQL database objects from the given server and database as files, into a consistent folder structure.
• Export-TableMerge.ps1: Exports table data as a T-SQL MERGE statement.
• Find-DatabaseValue.ps1: Searches an entire database for a field value.
• Find-DbColumn.ps1: Searches for database columns.
• Find-DbIndexes.ps1: Returns indexes using a column with the given name.
• Initialize-DatabaseNotebook.ps1: Populates a new notebook with details about a database.
• Measure-DbColumn.ps1: Provides statistics about SQL Server column data.
• Measure-DbColumnValues.ps1: Provides sorted counts of SQL Server column values.
• Measure-DbTable.ps1: Provides frequency details about SQL Server table data.
• New-DbProviderObject.ps1: Create a common database object.
• Repair-DatabaseConstraintNames.ps1: Finds database constraints with system-generated names and gives them deterministic names.
• Repair-DatabaseUntrustedConstraints.ps1: Finds database constraints that have been incompletely re-enabled.
• Send-SqlReport.ps1: Execute a SQL statement and email the results.
• Test-ConnectionString.ps1: Test a given connection string and provide details about the connection.
• Use-SqlcmdParams.ps1: Use the calling script parameters to set Invoke-Sqlcmd defaults.

Date and time

• Add-TimeSpan.ps1: Adds a timespan to DateTime values.
• ConvertFrom-Duration.ps1: Parses a Timespan from a ISO8601 duration string.
• ConvertFrom-EpochTime.ps1: Converts an integer Unix (POSIX) time (seconds since Jan 1, 1970) into a DateTime value.
• ConvertFrom-IsoWeekDate.ps1: Returns a DateTime object from an ISO week date string.
• ConvertTo-EpochTime.ps1: Converts a DateTime value into an integer Unix (POSIX) time, seconds since Jan 1, 1970.
• ConvertTo-LogParserTimestamp.ps1: Formats a datetime as a LogParser literal.
• Format-Date.ps1: Returns a date/time as a named format.
• Get-FrenchRepublicanDate.ps1: Returns a date and time converted to the French Republican Calendar.
• Show-Time.ps1: Displays a formatted date using powerline font characters.
• Test-DateTime.ps1: Tests whether the given string can be parsed as a date.
• Test-USFederalHoliday.ps1: Returns true if the given date is a U.S. federal holiday.

Dictionary

• Compare-Keys.ps1: Returns the differences between two dictionaries.
• ConvertTo-OrderedDictionary.ps1: Converts an object to an ordered dictionary of properties and values.
• Join-Keys.ps1: Combines dictionaries together into a single dictionary.
• Remove-NullValues.ps1: Removes dictionary entries with null vaules.
• Split-Keys.ps1: Clones a dictionary keeping only the specified keys.

DotNet

• Find-DotNetTools.ps1: Returns a list of matching dotnet tools.
• Get-AssemblyFramework.ps1: Gets the framework version an assembly was compiled for.
• Get-DotNetFrameworkVersions.ps1: Determine which .NET Frameworks are installed on the requested system.
• Get-DotNetGlobalTools.ps1: Returns a list of global dotnet tools.
• Get-DotNetVersions.ps1: Determine which .NET Core & Framework versions are installed.
• 🆕 Update-DotNetPackages.ps1: Updates NuGet packages for a .NET solution or project.

EnvironmentVariables

• Compress-EnvironmentVariables.ps1: Replaces each of the longest matching parts of a string with an embedded environment variable with that value.
• Expand-EnvironmentVariables.ps1: Replaces the name of each environment variable embedded in the specified string with the string equivalent of the value of the variable, then returns the resulting string.

Files

• Backup-File.ps1: Create a backup as a sibling to a file, with date and time values in the name.
• Find-NewestFile.ps1: Finds the most recent file.
• Join-FileName.ps1: Combines a filename with a string.
• Measure-Caches.ps1: Returns a list of matching cache directories, and their sizes, sorted.
• New-Shortcut.ps1: Create a Windows shortcut.
• Remove-LockyFile.ps1: Removes a file that may be prone to locking.
• Test-LockedFile.ps1: Returns true if the specified file is locked.
• Test-NewerFile.ps1: Returns true if the difference file is newer than the reference file.
• Update-Files.ps1: Copies specified source files that exist in the destination directory.

Git and GitHub

• Add-GitHubMetadata.ps1: Adds GitHub Linguist overrides to a repo’s .gitattributes.
• Copy-GitHubLabels.ps1: Copies configured issue labels from one repo to another.
• Get-GitFileMetadata.ps1: Returns the creation and last modification metadata for a file in a git repo.
• Get-GitFirstCommit.ps1: Gets the SHA-1 hash of the first commit of the current repo.
• Get-RepoName.ps1: Gets the name of the repo.
• Rename-GitHubLocalBranch.ps1: Rename a git repository branch.
• Save-Secret.ps1: Sets a secret in a secret vault with metadata.
• Trace-GitRepoTest.ps1: Uses git bisect to search for the point in the repo history that the test script starts returning true.

HTTP

• ConvertTo-BasicAuthentication.ps1: Produces a basic authentication header string from a credential.
• ConvertTo-MultipartFormData.ps1: Creates multipart/form-data to send as a request body.
• Get-ContentSecurityPolicy.ps1: Returns the content security policy at from the given URL.
• Get-SslDetails.ps1: Enumerates the SSL protocols that the client is able to successfully use to connect to a server.
• Save-WebRequest.ps1: Downloads a given URL to a file, automatically determining the filename.
• Show-HttpStatus.ps1: Displays the HTTP status code info.

Json

• Export-Json.ps1: Exports a portion of a JSON document, recursively importing references.
• Export-OpenApiSchema.ps1: Extracts a JSON schema from an OpenAPI definition.
• Get-OpenApiInfo.ps1: Returns metadata from an OpenAPI definition.
• Merge-Json.ps1: Create a new JSON string by recursively combining the properties of JSON strings.
• Resolve-JsonPointer.ps1: Returns matching JSON Pointer paths, given a JSON Pointer path with wildcards.
• Select-Json.ps1: Returns a value from a JSON string or file.
• Set-Json.ps1: Sets a property in a JSON string or file.
• Show-OpenApiInfo.ps1: Displays metadata from an OpenAPI definition.

Notebooks

• Add-NotebookCell.ps1: When run within a Polyglot Notebook, appends a cell to it.

Packages and libraries

• Find-ProjectPackages.ps1: Find modules used in projects.
• Get-LibraryVulnerabilityInfo.ps1: Get the list of module/package/library vulnerabilities from the RetireJS or SafeNuGet projects.

Parameters

• Add-ParameterDefault.ps1: Appends or creates a value to use for the specified cmdlet parameter to use when one is not specified.
• Remove-ParameterDefault.ps1: Removes a value that would have been used for a parameter if none was specified, if one existed.
• Set-ParameterDefault.ps1: Assigns a value to use for the specified cmdlet parameter to use when one is not specified.

PowerShell

• Add-Counter.ps1: Adds an incrementing integer property to each pipeline object.
• Add-DynamicParam.ps1: Adds a dynamic parameter to a script, within a DynamicParam block.
• Add-ScopeLevel.ps1: Convert a scope level to account for another call stack level.
• ForEach-Progress.ps1: Performs an operation against each item in a collection of input objects, with a progress bar.
• Format-ByteUnits.ps1: Converts bytes to largest possible units, to improve readability.
• Format-Permutations.ps1: Builds format strings using every combination of elements from multiple arrays.
• Get-EnumValues.ps1: Returns the possible values of the specified enumeration.
• Get-TypeAccelerators.ps1: Returns the list of PowerShell type accelerators.
• Import-Variables.ps1: Creates local variables from a data row or dictionary (hashtable).
• Invoke-WindowsPowerShell.ps1: Runs commands in Windows PowerShell (typically from PowerShell Core).
• Merge-PSObject.ps1: Create a new PSObject by recursively combining the properties of PSObjects.
• Read-Choice.ps1: Returns choice selected from a list of options.
• Stop-ThrowError.ps1: Throws a better error than “throw”.
• Test-Administrator.ps1: Checks whether the current session has administrator privileges.
• Test-Interactive.ps1: Determines whether both the user and process are interactive.
• Test-Range.ps1: Returns true from an initial condition until a terminating condition; a latching test.
• Test-Variable.ps1: Indicates whether a variable has been defined.
• Use-ProgressView.ps1: Sets the progress bar display view.
• Use-ReasonableDefaults.ps1: Sets certain cmdlet parameter defaults to rational, useful values.
• Write-Info.ps1: Writes to the information stream, with color support and more.

PowerShell Modules

• Uninstall-OldModules.ps1: Uninstalls old module versions.
• Update-Modules.ps1: Cleans up old modules.

Properties

• Add-NoteProperty.ps1: Adds a NoteProperty to a PSObject, calculating the value with the object in context.
• Compare-Properties.ps1: Compares the properties of two objects.
• Test-NoteProperty.ps1: Looks for any matching NoteProperties on an object.

Scheduled Tasks

• Backup-SchTasks.ps1: Exports the local list of Scheduled Tasks into a single XML file.
• ConvertFrom-CimInstance.ps1: Convert a CimInstance object to a PSObject.
• ConvertTo-ICalendar.ps1: Converts supported objects (Scheduled Tasks) to the RFC 5545 iCalendar format.
• Copy-SchTasks.ps1: Copy scheduled jobs from another computer to this one, using a GUI list to choose jobs.
• Restore-SchTasks.ps1: Imports from a single XML file into the local Scheduled Tasks.

Scripts

• New-PesterTests.ps1: Creates a new Pester testing script from a script’s examples and parameter sets.
• New-Script.ps1: Creates a simple boilerplate script.
• Optimize-Help.ps1: Cleans up comment-based help blocks by fully unindenting and capitalizing dot keywords.
• Rename-Script.ps1: Renames all instances of a script, and updates any usage of it.
• Repair-ScriptStyle.ps1: Accepts justifications for script analysis rule violations, fixing the rest using Invoke-ScriptAnalysis.

Search and replace

• Add-CapturesToMatches.ps1: Adds named capture group values as note properties to Select-String MatchInfo objects.
• Find-Lines.ps1: Searches a specific subset of files for lines matching a pattern.
• Select-CapturesFromMatches.ps1: Selects named capture group values as note properties from Select-String MatchInfo objects.
• Set-RegexReplace.ps1: Updates text found with Select-String, using a regular expression replacement template.

Seq

• Send-SeqEvent.ps1: Send an event to a Seq server.
• Send-SeqScriptEvent.ps1: Sends an event (often an error) from a script to a Seq server, including script info.
• Use-SeqServer.ps1: Set the default Server and ApiKey for Send-SeqEvent.ps1

System and updates

• Convert-ChocolateyToWinget.ps1: Change from managing various packages with Chocolatey to WinGet.
• Export-EdgeKeywords.ps1: Returns the configured search keywords from an Edge SQLite file.
• Export-InstalledPackages.ps1: Exports the list of packages installed by various tools.
• Find-InstalledPrograms.ps1: Searches installed programs.
• Get-SystemDetails.ps1: Collects some useful system hardware and operating system details via CIM.
• Import-EdgeKeywords.ps1: Adds search keywords to an Edge SQLite profile configuration.
• Read-ChocolateySummary.ps1: Retrieves the a summary from the Chocolatey log.
• Update-Everything.ps1: Updates everything it can on the system.
• Use-Java.ps1: Switch the Java version for the current process by modifying environment variables.

TLS/SSL

• Get-ServerCertificate.ps1: Returns the certificate provided by the requested server.

Unicode

• ConvertTo-SafeEntities.ps1: Encode text as XML/HTML, escaping all characters outside 7-bit ASCII.
• 🆙 Get-CharacterDetails.ps1: Returns filterable categorical information about characters in the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane.
• Get-Unicode.ps1: Returns the (UTF-16) .NET string for a given Unicode codepoint, which may be a surrogate pair.
• Get-UnicodeByName.ps1: Returns characters based on Unicode code point name, GitHub short code, or HTML entity.
• Get-UnicodeData.ps1: Returns the current (cached) Unicode character data.
• Get-UnicodeName.ps1: Returns the name of a Unicode code point.
• Import-CharConstants.ps1: Imports characters by name as constants into the current scope.

VSCode

• Add-VsCodeDatabaseConnection.ps1: Adds a VS Code MSSQL database connection to the repo.
• Get-VSCCurrentFile.ps1: Returns the path of the current file open in VSCode, when run in the PowerShell Extension Terminal in VSCode.
• Get-VSCodeSetting.ps1: Sets a VSCode setting.
• Get-VSCodeSettingsFile.ps1: Gets the path of the VSCode settings.config file.
• Import-VsCodeDatabaseConnections.ps1: Adds config XDT connection strings to VSCode settings.
• Push-WorkspaceLocation.ps1: Pushes the current VS Code editor workspace location to the location stack.
• Set-VSCodeSetting.ps1: Sets a VSCode setting.

XML

• Compare-Xml.ps1: Compares two XML documents and returns the differences.
• Convert-Xml.ps1: Transform XML using an XSLT template.
• ConvertFrom-EscapedXml.ps1: Parse escaped XML into XML and serialize it.
• ConvertFrom-XmlElement.ps1: Converts named nodes of an element to properties of a PSObject, recursively.
• ConvertTo-XmlElements.ps1: Serializes complex content into XML elements.
• Format-Xml.ps1: Pretty-print XML.
• Get-XmlNamespaces.ps1: Gets the namespaces from a document as a dictionary.
• Merge-XmlSelections.ps1: Builds an object using the named XPath selections as properties.
• New-NamespaceManager.ps1: Creates an object to lookup XML namespace prefixes.
• Resolve-XmlSchemaLocation.ps1: Gets the namespaces and their URIs and URLs from a document.
• Resolve-XPath.ps1: Returns the XPath of the location of an XML node.
• Show-DataRef.ps1: Display an HTML view of an XML schema or WSDL using Saxon.
• Test-Xml.ps1: Try parsing text as XML, and validating it if a schema is provided.

Other

• Backup-Workstation.ps1: Adds various configuration files and exported settings to a ZIP file.
• Connect-SshKey.ps1: Uses OpenSSH to generate a key and connect it to an ssh server.
• ConvertTo-RomanNumeral.ps1: Convert a number to a Roman numeral.
• Copy-Html.ps1: Copies objects as an HTML table.
• Export-MermaidER.ps1: Generates a Mermaid entity relation diagram for database tables.
• Export-Readme.ps1: Generate README.md file for the scripts repo.
• Format-HtmlDataTable.ps1: Right-aligns numeric data in an HTML table for emailing, and optionally zebra-stripes &c.
• Get-ADServiceAccountInfo.ps1: Lists the Global Managed Service Accounts for the domain, including the computers they are bound to.
• Get-AspNetEvents.ps1: Parses ASP.NET errors from the event log on the given server.
• Get-Dns.ps1: Looks up DNS info, given a hostname or address.
• Get-GitHubRepoChildItem.ps1: Gets the items and child items in one or more specified locations.
• Get-IisLog.ps1: Easily query IIS logs.
• Get-PocketArticles.ps1: Retrieves a list of saved articles from a Pocket account.
• Get-RandomBytes.ps1: Returns random bytes.
• Get-Todos.ps1: Returns the TODOs for the current git repo, which can help document technical debt.
• Measure-Indents.ps1: Measures the indentation characters used in a text file.
• Measure-StandardDeviation.ps1: Calculate the standard deviation of numeric values.
• Measure-TextFile.ps1: Counts each type of indent and line ending.
• New-RandomVehicle.ps1: Generates random vehicle details with a valid VIN.
• Optimize-Path.ps1: Sorts, prunes, and normalizes both user and system Path entries.
• Remove-PocketArticle.ps1: Removes an article from a Pocket account.
• Repair-AppxPackages.ps1: Re-registers all installed Appx packages.
• Restore-Workstation.ps1: Restores various configuration files and exported settings from a ZIP file.
• 🆙 Save-PodcastEpisodes.ps1: Downloads enclosures from a podcast feed.
• Send-MailMessageFile.ps1: Sends emails from a drop folder using .NET config defaults.
• Test-HttpSecurity.ps1: Scan sites using Mozilla’s Observatory.
• Write-CallInfo.ps1: Prints caller name and parameters to the host for debugging purposes.
• Write-VisibleString.ps1: Displays a string, showing nonprintable characters.

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