i'm used to using both so i tend to obey case even where it is not necessary,
powershell tries to be clever, and usually succeeds, in working out case, just can be unnecessarily verbose at times
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Not saying I don't believe you, just odd. Conversely similar in Unix, case sometimes is ignored.Originally posted by veroli View Postit is(can) be in powershell
to work in date and time formats
MM is months mm is minutes if you dont believe me try it
'nslookup host1' and 'nslookup HOST1' both return the same correct resolution. Here Unix ignores case - just find it interesting....
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it is(can) be in powershell
to work in date and time formats
MM is months mm is minutes if you dont believe me try it
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not sure why and how you are putting that object into a variable but to format a date
get-date -f dd/MMM/yyy
uppercase here refers to month lower case m's give minutes
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Scrap thatOriginally posted by SimonMac View Postreturns the date as a number, how would I get it to return JAN/FEB/etc?Code:$date = Get-Date ($_.LastWriteTime)
Doesn't seem to workCode:$date = Get-Date -format D ($_.LastWriteTime)
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Quick and dirty Power shell help
returns the date as a number, how would I get it to return JAN/FEB/etc?Code:$date = Get-Date ($_.LastWriteTime)
Doesn't seem to workCode:$date = Get-Date -format D ($_.LastWriteTime)
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