Century

1. Doing the Slack: century1:century1
2. $psversiontable : century2:10.0.14393.7604
   1. $PSVersion doesn’t work in version 1, also GetHost is not reliable (only host PS)
   2. Get-Host is useful but not here
3. Invoke-WebRequest and dir gives u everything
   1. use lowercase
   2. century3:invoke-webrequest443
4. dir is alias for Get-ChildItem
   1. a simple (dir).count gets vtotal
   2. century4:123
5. century5:6265
   1. to go into folders with spaces, encapsulate path in single quotes
6. century6: underthewire3347
   1. (Get-CimInstance Win32_NTDomain | ?{$_.Status -eq “OK”}).DomainName
   2. [System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.Domain]::GetComputerDomain()
   3. $env:USERDNSDOMAIN
      1. also :COMPUTERNAME and :USERNAME
7. century7:197
   1. same as for #4
   2. use -Directory flag
   3. for files, gci -File
8. century8:7points
   1. gci - Recurse
9. century9:696
   1. Get-Content .\unique.txt | Sort-Object -unique | Measure-Object -line
      1. or type and sort as cmd’s
10. century10:pierid
    1. $file = gc Word_file.txt
    2. $file.split(’ )
    3. Select-Object -Index 160 or you could do [160] for 161st if u have a variable
11. century11:windowsupdates110
    1. Get-Service -> lists all services
    2. findstr / Select-String -> findstr works better
       1. findstr “Update”
       2. service name is wuauserv
    3. Get-WmiObject win32_service is more verbsose than Get-Service
       1. pipe into | Select Name, Description
    4. Select SPecific:
       1. Get-WmiObject win32_service | ?{$_.NAME -like “wuauserv”} | Select Description | $_.Description
       2. ($desc).Description.split(" “) | Select-Object -Index 9,8
12. century12:secret_sauce
    1. -Force with dir
    2. Get-ChildItem | Get-ChildItem -Recurse -File -Hidden | Where-Object {$_.Name -ne ‘desktop.ini’}
13. century13:i_authenticate_things
    1. Manner of waves:
    2. Get-ADComputer gets information about computer
       1. needs -Properties Description to get desc
       2. also initial run needs -Filter “*” to get all
    3. Alternatively:
       1. Get-ADDomainController to get name first
14. cenutry14:755
    1. How i did it: $file = gc file -> gc.split(” “) | Measure-Object -line
    2. Measure-Object -Word exists
15. century15:158
    1. (Select-String -Path .\countpolos -Pattern “polo” -AllMatches).Matches.count)