Powershell One Liners

Instead of making a post every time I stumble upon a cool powershell one liner, I'll combine them all in this post. If you have a better one liner for my tasks, please comment.





Kill a process by name (In this case Jenkins).

 Get-Process | ? {$_.Name -like 'JenKins' }  | Stop-Process



Delete all Duplication Downloads (I usually run it first without the del paramaters)

 dir  -r  | ? {$_.Name -like '(1)' }  | del



Powershell 3, Where/ForEach hack - allowing you to specify properties sans an anonymous expression.

 dir  -r  | ?  Name -like '(1)' 



Restart Explorer (often auto-hide of taskbar gets stuck, restarting explorer fixes it.)

Get-Process | where name -eq explorer  |kill ; explorer



Find Who's hogging memory

 Get-Process | sort "VM" -Des | Select-Object -first 10



Set current time  forward 4 hours

 set-date ((get-date) + [TimeSpan]::FromHours(4.0))



Get my son's age in weeks

 ((get-date) - (get-date 4/22/2010)).TotalDays/7



1-Liners relying on  Power Shell Community Extensions (pscx)



Load pscx

  Import-Module Pscx



Load the VS environment:

  Import-VisualStudioVars 2012



Put stuff on/off the clipboard:

  PS C:\hgs\igsmilebox> dir *ts | Out-Clipboard

  PS C:\hgs\igsmilebox> Get-Clipboard





Get Time since last reboot:

PS C:\Users\idvor_000\SkyDrive\Documents> uptime

Uptime                                                         LastBootUpTime

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6.19:20:27.1723192                                             4/27/2013 10:01:13 PM