Bijay Kumar 
Do you want to format the output from a PowerShell cmdlet? The answer is the PowerShell’s Format-List cmdlet. With Format-List, you can transform complex output into a clean, readable list that highlights every property you care about. In this tutorial, I will explain exactly how to use Format-List in PowerShell with practical, real-world examples. What … Read more
To list installed modules in PowerShell, run Get-Module -ListAvailable. It searches every module folder on the PC, not just the modules loaded right now. Add -Name to look for specific modules: Output in PowerShell 7: On my PC, PowerShell 7.6 found two versions of PSReadLine. Windows PowerShell 5.1 found only the older one, and a … Read more
To use curl in PowerShell, type curl.exe instead of curl. Windows 10 and 11 include the real curl, and the .exe makes sure you get it rather than an alias: Output: In Windows PowerShell 5.1, plain curl is an alias for Invoke-WebRequest, so your curl options fail. Below I show the difference, send JSON without … Read more
PowerShell regex (regular expressions) lets you match, extract, replace and split text by pattern. The operators -match, -replace and -split all take a regex, and $Matches holds what -match found: Output: Below I cover case sensitivity, named groups, replacing, splitting, finding every match, Select-String and switch -Regex. Every example ran in PowerShell 7.6 and 5.1, … Read more
To check the PowerShell version, run $PSVersionTable.PSVersion. It works in every version on Windows, macOS and Linux. Here it is in PowerShell 7: Output in PowerShell 7.6: The same command in Windows PowerShell 5.1 shows a different layout, with Build and Revision instead of Patch: Most Windows 11 PCs have both: Windows PowerShell 5.1 is … Read more
To find files modified after a date in PowerShell, pipe Get-ChildItem -File -Recurse to Where-Object and compare LastWriteTime with the date: Output: LastWriteTime is the “Date modified” column in File Explorer. I used a sample folder with fixed dates, and I ran every example in PowerShell 7.6 and Windows PowerShell 5.1, with the same results. … Read more
To delete files older than 30 days with PowerShell, list the files with Get-ChildItem, keep the ones whose LastWriteTime is before a cutoff date, and pipe them to Remove-Item. Run it with -WhatIf first: Output: In a real script, set the cutoff with (Get-Date).AddDays(-30). I used a fixed date and a sample folder so the … Read more
Recently, I was working on a project where I needed to track down who made changes to some important configuration files on our server. While Windows Explorer displays the date a file was last modified, it doesn’t indicate who made the modification. But you can use PowerShell to find out. In this tutorial, I will … Read more
One of our clients recently wanted us to display a progress bar while copying files from one directory to another. This is a valid requirement when copying larger files. Unfortunately, PowerShell’s Copy-Item cmdlet doesn’t display a progress bar by default. I recall the first time I attempted to copy a massive folder from a network … Read more
In this tutorial, I will show how to split a string and get the second element in PowerShell using various methods with examples. Last month, I was tasked with automating data extraction from thousands of log files for a major financial services client in Chicago. The logs contained critical transaction information, but each record was … Read more
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