Quick and dirty Power shell help

[SimonMac]

  $date = Get-Date ($_.LastWriteTime)

returns the date as a number, how would I get it to return JAN/FEB/etc?

  $date = Get-Date -format D ($_.LastWriteTime)

Doesn't seem to work

[SimonMac]

  $date = Get-Date ($_.LastWriteTime)

returns the date as a number, how would I get it to return JAN/FEB/etc?

  $date = Get-Date -format D ($_.LastWriteTime)

Doesn't seem to work

Scrap that

[veroli]

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

[stek]

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?

[veroli]

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

[stek]

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....

[veroli]

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