Episode 61 – Joe Pruitt from F5 and the ABCs of PowerShell
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk with developer and blogger Joe Pruitt from F5 Networks.
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PowerGui 1.7
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Quest has
 put up a survey  to help determine the direction of PowerGUI
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Don Jones
 has offered to review  submitted scripts
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Jeffrey Snover recently
 weighed in  on a StackOverflow question on  PowerShell vs Unix Shells
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Jeff Hicks
 posted a reminder  that Sapien has a new round of online PowerShell fundamentals classes starting March 10th
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SAPIEN has posted a clarification to their blog about the new
 PrimalScript and PrimalTools software
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rfoust : ## what do you like the most about powershell?
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glnsize : ## what's your opinion of WS-MGMT?
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glnsize : ## how deep do you plan on going with your cmdlets? Â what percentage of your product line do you want to cover?
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ustreamer-61217 : ## will there be an update for v2?
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glnsize : ## Â doesn't that invalidate the whole perpose of SSL... not posh related but a pet peeve
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jonwalz-1 : ## there is a memory improvement technique that uses ABC lists. Is that where you got the idea for your lists?
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Lee shows us how to
 move or delete a really locked file
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Karl shows us how to search the PoshCode repository
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Don Jones' Code Review #1:
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A script to tell you if a
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Doug has published a script to
 grab data from a Google Docs spreadsheet
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ShayÂ
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 using default net credentials and web proxy
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JoelÂ
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cleanly parse NETSH DHCP SERVER
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Tips
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"[Four for loops and their timings](http://dougfinke.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/20/powershell-four-for-loops-and-their-timings/)" blog post
Mailbag
Author : Vivek K.
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“I have been listening to your postcast’s and you guys are doing great job.
Here is something I want to share as a single liner 🙂
I have text file with the name text1.txt, text2.txt and so on..
I have always been renaming these files manually for long time and now with Power (PowerShell) in my hand I do this..
Get-ChildItem *.txt | Rename-Item -NewName { $_.name -replace ’text(d+)’, ‘$1.text’}
HTH for all those who come across situations when you want to rename such files.. this is for files with name starting with “text”.. I am working on making this script as general as possible.”