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Previously on "Quick and dirty Power shell help"

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  • veroli
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    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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  • stek
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    Originally posted by veroli View Post
    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
    Not saying I don't believe you, just odd. Conversely similar in Unix, case sometimes is ignored.

    'nslookup host1' and 'nslookup HOST1' both return the same correct resolution. Here Unix ignores case - just find it interesting....

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  • veroli
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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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  • stek
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    Originally posted by veroli View Post
    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
    I thought Windows wasn't case-sensitive?

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  • veroli
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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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  • SimonMac
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    Originally posted by SimonMac View Post
    Code:
      $date = Get-Date ($_.LastWriteTime)
    returns the date as a number, how would I get it to return JAN/FEB/etc?

    Code:
      $date = Get-Date -format D ($_.LastWriteTime)
    Doesn't seem to work
    Scrap that
    Last edited by SimonMac; 16 June 2016, 15:36.

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  • SimonMac
    started a topic Quick and dirty Power shell help

    Quick and dirty Power shell help

    Code:
      $date = Get-Date ($_.LastWriteTime)
    returns the date as a number, how would I get it to return JAN/FEB/etc?

    Code:
      $date = Get-Date -format D ($_.LastWriteTime)
    Doesn't seem to work

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