Powershell Utilities

Adding it to the PowerShell profile

You can add these scripts to your PowerShell profile to make them easier for use.

Note

Note that for PowerShell Core and PowerShell Windows, there are different profile files

Example:

# open the configuration file for your PowerShell

> code $profile

# inside Microsoft.Powershell_profile.ps1 file

function RunWhere($command) {
    (Get-Command $command).Path
}

Set-Alias -Name "whereis" -Value RunWhere

Note

To learn more about how you can configure your powershell profiles, take a look at about_Profiles

🐍 Scripts

• Time.ps1 - Short function that works like time on Unix
  

# Example: 
> ./Time.ps1 # execute the script
> time dotnet run # use the function to measure the time of a certain command

• RemoveFileInFolder.ps1 - Loop through folders and remove a file

• RenameFilesInFolder.ps1 - Loop through a folder and rename files by creation time

• CreateTask.ps1 - Create a system task on Windows

• backup-mongo-db - Make a backup of a MongoDB database

• WhereIs.ps1 - Find the path of the executable

# Example: 
> ./WhereIs.ps1 # Execute the script
> whereis php
C:\tools\php74\php.exe

• GetStringBetweenByIndex.ps1 - Return a string inside a start and final index

# Example: 
> ./GetStringBetweenByIndex.ps1 -Value "Hello World" -Start "He" -End "ld"
ello Wor

• ConvertGitLogToJson.ps1 - Convert the output of git log command in JSON

# Example: 
> ./ConvertGitLogToJson.ps1 -NumberOfCommits 1
[
  {
    "commit": "f9f320eeea4c4329896a785f083c04279526064f",
    "tree": "4841da995b423e1d748ccfd908976070e435f254",  
    "parent": "f78937b304446b504a0ad9ea101d995193431528",
    "refs": "HEAD -> main, origin/main, origin/HEAD",    
    "subject": "Update README.md",
    "body": "",
    "author": "Fabrício Pinto Ferreira",
    "commiter": "GitHub"
  }
]

• GetIfStringIsInArray.ps1 - Verify if the string contains any other strings present in the array

# Example: 
> ./GetIfStringIsInArray.ps1 -ArraySet @('work', 'paper') -StringToVerify "I work in a paper company"
True

• RunApiAndSiteInWT.ps1 - Run an API and Site in a tab of Windows Terminal

• StartDotnetApi.ps1 - Run a Dotnet API

• StartWebpackSite.ps1 - Run a Webpack project (like Vue or React)

• BuildDotnet.ps1 - Build a Dotnet API

• BuildWebpackSite.ps1 - Build a Webpack project (like Vue or React)

• RemoveMergedBranches.ps1 - Remove all merged branches in a git repository (this script only removes merged branches and does not use the -D flag)

• PreviousCommands.ps1 - Returns a list of the previous commands (by default it'll return the last 20 commands)

🎹 Commands

• SetClipboardWithPath.ps1 - Short version to get the current path into your clipboard