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A quick question, answered on Heelpbook, about “Read content of compressed file (.zip file) using PowerShell”, something that could be useful in some scenarios like testing or development to extract programmatically needed files from dev kits. Read More …
Starting with PowerShell 5, cmdlets like Expand-Archive can extract the content of ZIP files to disk. However, you can always extract only the entire archive. Luckily, there are other methods to extract, not only, from .zip archives, specified files or folders, on Windows-based systems. Read More …
A quick question, answered on Heelpbook, about “How to user custom UserAgent with Invoke-WebRequest on Powershell?”, sometime useful while testing some code interacting with websites using Powershell code. Read More …
The following scenario could be useful for those that need to regularly monitor the response type of specifc URL or URLs; this can be done quite easily by using Powershell. The approach can be easily integrated in functions and automated/scheduled scripts to get a periodic status of the URLs monitored. Read More …
Let’s see some Powershell ways to search for text or files, also in Word and Excel programs, on a Windows system (server and client). A scripting way to this common tedious activity (searching for files and text in files) would be useful to not waste time, most of the time. Read More …