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To avoid errors, it's important to write PowerShell scripts that prevent code from running on an unintended platform. Luckily, this is easier to do than it sounds. Up until a few years ago ...

One of the delights in Bash, zsh, or whichever shell tickles your fancy in your OSS distribution of choice, is the ease of which you can use scripts. These can be shell scripts, or use the Perl ...

cross-platform code editor that works to write virtually any programming language. And when adding the PowerShell extension, you get an interactive scripting editing experience, which even comes ...

Many people jump into PowerShell and immediately think they need to start writing scripts. That couldn't be further from the truth, and actually I believe that can be counter-productive. Without a ...

Shell ISE provides a user-friendly environment for writing and running PowerShell scripts. Let's first examine how to access it on Windows computers and familiarize ourselves with its interface ...

While writing my previous column, I ran into a really odd problem: I suddenly found that even the simplest of PowerShell scripts no longer worked. An extremely simple four-line script started ...

A script is just a collection of commands saved into a text file (using the special .ps1 extension) that PowerShell understands and executes in sequence to perform different actions. In this post ...