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Questions tagged [powershell-7.2]
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Why is the function not called by Start-ThreadJob?
I want to backup some data over my script. All data shall be zipped in a separate thread. But two things go wrong:
The function testFct is never called - indication: no "inside: ...".
The parameter ZipSource is missing - see output.
Calling the…
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How can I prevent non position 0 parameters to appear in position 0 in PowerShell?
Here are my parameters of one of the nested modules in my main module:
Param(
[Parameter(Mandatory = $false, ParameterSetName = "set1", Position = 0, ValueFromPipeline = $true)][switch]$Get_BlockRules,
[Parameter(Mandatory =…
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Powershell 7.2: ConvertFrom-Json - Date Handling
With Powershell 7.2 there seems to be a change in how a JSON is deserialized into an object in terms of dates -> instead of string it is now datetime. But I want to have the "old" behavior, i.e. that it is handled as string and NOT datetime.
How can…
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How to export variables from a PowerShell module
I've defined a variable in a psm1 file but when I try to access it in another script, after importing the module, I'm not seeing the value set in the psm1 file.
globals.psm1
$blah = "hello world"
my-script.ps1
Import-Module…
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Implicit conversion to bool of struct defined in C# fails in PowerShell
Why does an implicit conversion to [byte] work, but when replacing byte by bool it no longer works?
I. e. the following works...
Add-Type -TypeDefinition @'
public readonly struct MyByte
{
private readonly byte value;
public MyByte( byte b…
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Accept part of the autocompletion
I have recently got myself a new Windows 11 laptop, and started exploring powershell. Never used it before on Windows, but I'm a frequest user of zsh in Mac so not completely new.
I upgraded Powershell to 7.2.1, but noticed that the auto-suggestion…
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PowerShell - Add-Type Issue trying to do REST call without self-signed cert issue
I'm trying to better understand Add-Type in PowerShell after running into an issue of trying to do a REST API call and avoiding a self-signed cert issue. Code is as follows.
add-type @"
using System.Net;
using…
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Why do process blocks correctly return a hashtable, instead of an array of hashtables?
I am trying to sort some REST API responses and extract data from them, and found this helpful answer on how to end up with a hashtable at the end.
$res= (Invoke-RestMethod @commonParams -uri "foo" -Method GET -FollowRelLink) | ForEach-Object { $_ }…
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Defining parameters common to all functions within a PowerShell module
I am writing a PowerShell module, the functions inside this module have some parameters which will be re-used across all functions. Rather than copy-pasting the function definition each time I add a new function, I would like to define them at the…
David
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How to refer to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT in PowerShell?
New-Item -Path "HKCR:\Directory\Background\shell\customname" -Force
I've been doing the same thing for HKCU and KHLM but when I try HKCR I get errors in PowerShell. how am I supposed to do it for HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT?
I searched for a solution but…
user20225877
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Powershell - how to read Ansi CSV file
Notepad++ says the CSV file is Ansi encoded.
The Powershell 7 Import-CSV commandlet has various -Encoding options but 'Ansi' is not one of them.
How do I get Powershell to read this CSV without mangling it?
The options for -Encoding…
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Converting extremely large JSON file to object
I have very large JSON files that I would like to explore the structure of before processing. Some of these can be in excess of 4-5 GB, but the one I've picked a smaller one just for exploration purposes. The bonus difficulty here is that the files…
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PowerShell 7; String to DateTime?
This piece of code works fine in PowerShell 5.
It returns the following date/time, depending on which OS and OS language is used;
"Wed, 04 Mar 2015 07:39:54 GMT"
"woensdag 4 maart 2015 08:39:54"
However, in PowerShell 7 it no longer works and gives…
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Default Powershell Terminal is 7.2 but scripts run as Powershell 5.1
Notice in my VS Code, a fresh terminal, the very first line indicates it is properly defaulted to Powershell 7.2.2 - just as I believe it should.
But then in this same screenshot, the first script I run (which has a command to print out the…
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invoke-WebRequest and a proxy that refuses to die in Powershell 5.1
I have a Windows Server 2019 instance that used to have a proxy server configured in its proxy setting but has since been disabled from Proxy Settings -> Proxy
If I run the powershell 5.1 command:
Invoke-WebRequest https://
then i'm still…
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