Commands
PowerShell Commands
Compress-Archive
This example creates a zip file of the Documents folder with a datetime string in the zip filename.
Compress-Archive "$env:USERPROFILE\Documents" "$env:USERPROFILE\Documents_$(get-date -f yyyyMMdd'T'HHmmss).zip"
$env:PSModulePath
List where all modules get installed.
New-Guid
The New-Guid cmdlet creates a random globally unique identifier (GUID).
Remove-Item
Remove-Item deletes one or more items. It can be used to delete many different types of items, including files, directories, registry keys, variables, aliases, and functions.
# delete folder and contents
Remove-Item .\thefolder\* -recurse -force
# alias is `rd`
rd .\thefolder\* -recurse -force
type
Print the contents of a file.
type C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
Create files
C:\> echo "line from file1" > file1.txt
C:\> echo "line from file2" > file2.txt
Concatenate files
C:\> type file1.txt file2.txt > result.txt
C:\> type result.txt
line from file1
line from file2
Also works in Windows Command prompt.