Technobabble from a .Net developer on the loose…
As a simple example of working with culture information in PowerShell, here’s how to list Swedish monthnames:
(new-object system.globalization.cultureinfo("sv-SE")).DateTimeFormat.MonthNames
The result is an array:
januari februari mars april maj juni juli augusti september oktober november december
Try doing that in a BAT file… 🙂
/Emil
Mostly for my own reference, here’s an example of how to configure a trace listener that writes events to a text file:
<configuration>
...
<system.diagnostics>
<trace autoflush="true">
<listeners>
<add name="TestTrace" type="System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener"
initializeData="trace.txt" />
</listeners>
</trace>
</system.diagnostics>
...
</configuration>
After that, all calls to System.Diagnostics.Trace.Write* functions are logged to the textfile. Example:
Trace.WriteLine("Something happened...");
Here’s a small script to kill all Word or Excel-processes that have been running for more than 5 minutes. This can be useful on a server that launches those applications to generate documents. You probably shouldn’t do it that way but if you do you’re likely to discover that the processes don’t always terminate as they should. In those situations, a script like this can come in handy.
$startTimeLimit = (get-date) - (new-timespan -minutes 5)
$processes_to_kill = get-process |
where {$_.StartTime -lt $startTimeLimit -and ($_.path -like "*winword.exe" -or $_.path -like "*excel.exe") }
if ($processes_to_kill -ne $null)
{
$processes_to_kill | foreach { $_.Kill() }
}
/Emil