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
Working with PowerShell for over a decade, I’ve often needed to combine text with dates and times—especially for file naming, logging, and automation tasks. If you’ve ever wanted to add today’s date to a report filename or include a timestamp in your logs, you’re in the right place. In this tutorial, I’ll show you several … Read more
When working with PowerShell scripts, I often need to combine text with numerical values to create meaningful output. As a PowerShell developer, you will frequently get requirements to concatenate strings and floats in PowerShell. In this tutorial, I will show you multiple methods to concatenate strings and float values in PowerShell, along with practical examples. … Read more
In my years of PowerShell scripting, I’ve often needed to combine strings while ensuring proper spacing between them. Whether you’re building filenames, creating log messages, or generating reports, you will require string concatenation in PowerShell. In this tutorial, we will see various methods to concatenate strings with spaces in PowerShell with examples. Let’s get started … Read more
Recently, I was working on a data migration project where I needed to process a large CSV file containing semicolon-delimited values in several columns. I quickly realized that knowing how to split strings by semicolons in PowerShell would be very useful for this. PowerShell offers multiple methods to split strings by delimiters like semicolons. In … Read more
Recently, I was working on a project that required parsing a log file containing space-separated values. The challenge was to extract individual components from each line and process them separately. This is where PowerShell’s string splitting capabilities came to my rescue. In this tutorial, I will explain different methods to split strings by spaces in … 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
Working with comma-separated values is something I do almost daily in my PowerShell scripts. Mostly, you will get requirements in situations such as parsing CSV files, handling API responses, or processing user inputs. In this tutorial, I’ll show you five different methods to split strings by comma in PowerShell with practical examples. Method 1 – … Read more
Recently, I was working on a PowerShell script that processed user information from our company database. I needed to handle cases where some fields might be null, and instead of letting these null values cause errors, I wanted to replace them with empty strings. This is a common scenario in PowerShell, especially when working with … Read more
When working with PowerShell, you should know how to check if values aren’t equal most of the time. PowerShell’s not equal operator, written as -ne, compares two values and gives you $true when they don’t match. The -ne operator is one of PowerShell’s most useful comparison operators because it lets you filter out unwanted data … Read more
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