powershell_scripts | Miscellaneous PowerShell scripts | Command Line Interface library

PowerShell cmdlet Test-Path :c\df -IsValid (and the variation Test-Path -IsValid :c\df) is returning true for syntax that is clearly not valid. Can someone shed light on this; am I missing something?

Greetings everyone and Happy New Year.

I just learned about PowerShell two days ago and it shows. I am trying to make custom Balloon tips and didn't what to make separate ps1 scripts for every possible event. What I needed was a ps1 with parameters.

I found this bit of code at this site: GitHub Invoke-BalloonTip

And I call successfully call it from the PS window with:

I have a Powershell script issuing the Move-Item command to move some 3D CAD directories and subdirectories from one network share to another. About 300 parent folders a day. I am having the most strange problem. All parent folders are copying to the destination just fine, but about 10 of the 300 objects are not being removed from the source. It seems that any subdirectory that contains a type of png scan file, will not remove from the source; it copies fine, just doesn't remove from source. No error is reported in the -verbose log output. The file sizes are not large, < 50MB each. Doing some testing, I also noticed that if I run the script once, the problem occurs, but if I run the script again with no changes, it moves the remaining objects that it did not move on the initial run. Another observation is that if I run the script where the source and destination are on the same share, the problem does not occur. The problem only occurs when source and destination are on different shares. Same problem using both versions 5.1 and 4.0.

I also tried using some simple png files I created myself just by saving a jpg screen print as a png, and those png files copy and remove fine. So something is special about these 3D CAD png files. I even tried copying off the parent folder to share to make sure no one or no program is locking the original files, and the problem still happens.

I have been successful at replacing the move-item command with a robocopy command, and it works perfectly, so I could use robocopy to solve my problem, but I want to figure out why the move-item command is having this problem. My only theory is that if on the same share, no data is actually being moved, only the reference to the file, ie pointer, ie FAT (file allocation table) is being changed. When crossing shares the actual file data has to be moved, so something is funny about these files that prevents that from happening. But as stated above, if I run the script a 2nd time, the remaining files copy and remove fine. So that leaves a little unexplained.

Just wondering if anyone has any ideas.

See the code samples below, and also some screen prints of the source folder structure before and after.

I am trying to use Terraform's external provider to run a PowerShell script.

I am not able to pass parameters to the script from Terraform.

I am using the following code to run the script:

I need to run a Powershell script to create AD user via a batch file. The thing is I need to run this PS script with elevated privileges (domain admin account). I have tried to script a '.bat' file which encloses all this information but I have been unsuccessful so far. Here is the script :

Using wkhtmltopdf in Powershell, the PDF file is printing as expected, although it is throwing a warning as follows:

& "C:\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\bin\wkhtmltopdf.exe" --print-media-type -q --header-left [webpage] --header-font-size 7 --footer-left [isodate] $listing.Url $pdfDest