PSUtils

My PowerShell utils
Place it in %MyDocuments%\WindowsPowerShell\Modules and Import-Module PSUtils

• app — run application (in case of ambiguity between app and cmdlet)

• json, unjson — encode/decode JSON to/from PSObject

• clear-clibboard, set-clipboard, out-clipboard, get-clipboard with aliases clear-clip, set-clip, out-clip, get-clip — clipboard utils, out-clip appends data to clipboard when called in foreach

• get-handle — get handles with SysInternals handle util, returns PSObjects

• select-match — select-string with two enhancements: allows selecting only matched value (or group), and also can color output

• colorize — colorize regex-matched parts of string

• tags — get tags of audio file with TagLib library

• whereis — locate executable with where util

• invoke-cmd — invoke .bat file and update environment variables changes

• screenshot, printscreen — take screenshot with Drawing.Graphics or simulating PrtScr button

• save-image — save image to file, use it with function above: screenshot | save-image pics

• timer — run script with interval

• hash — create hashtable from input, ls | hash Name FullName

• template — replace variables in text/files, on string input replaces variables '$x = $y...' | template @{x=10;y=(1,2,3)} ⇒ 10 = 1, 10 = 2, 10 = 3, on file/path input — replace variables both in file/path names and in its contents and copies substituted files to destination directory

• enumerate — convert container to sequence of elements

• numerate — numerate files, for example ls *.png | sort -Property CreationTime | numerate -Digits 2 will rename to 01.png, 02.png, ... in order of CreationTime. numerate -Digits 2 -Format 'foo {0}' to specify template for new name, result will be foo 01.png etc.

• watch-path — watch for file creation/changing/deletion in path

• beep — shortcut for [console]::Beep

• xpath — query elements from HTML

• download — download page

• wreq — invoke web request, returning string result

• time — measure script block running time

• unzip, zip, lszip — very simple zip utils in top of 7z

• codepage — get/set codepage or run block with specified codepage

• encoding — get/set encoding or run block with specified encoding, it's useful to run some cmd tool with $OutputEncoding set

• verbose — set $VerbosePreference to Continue within script

• verbs — get verbs for file

• path — just GetFolderPath

• import-profile — reload profile scripts

• rhistory — search in history

• environment — get env as hashtable, or set env from hashtable

• dictionary (alias dict) and gdict — working with simple dictionary in top of JSON

• wait — wait for process

• test-ctrlc — throw exception if Ctrl+C pressed

• record — record screenshots of process

• animate — make gif-animation for images, uses ImageMagick convert

• expand — expand string with variables

• closure — simple closure, convert script to string, then expand and convert back to script

• fuzzymatch — fuzzy match like sublimetext one