When it comes to searching command-line output or files from the terminal, there's no utility more venerable than grep. In fact, the command is so widely used that programmers even use grep as a verb ...

Whether you are parsing logs or validating input, using regular expressions is a great way to accomplish both of these things. The problem is: regular expressions can be hard and that will only grow ...

Last month, we did a little work with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to show you how Windows PowerShell interacts with external providers. In that column, we did some disk inventory, then ...

Strings are a very common thing to see and use in PowerShell. Parameters may take strings and a lot of times the objects that are outputted by various commands have strings as their properties. In ...

PowerShell can save you a lot of time on Windows admin tasks, but to use it effectively you need to understand how it works. Here’s a crash course in Windows PowerShell scripting basics to get you ...