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PowerShell Solutions - Working with files

Daniel Calbimonte

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October 3, 2016 at 9:57 pm

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rajen-471102 Valued Member Points: 69 More actions · Answer 1

Hi Daniel

This article is clearly written and very use full.

Rajen

wolf138 SSC Journeyman Points: 98 More actions · Answer 2

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October 4, 2016 at 6:03 am

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By "merge", do you mean "append"?

akljfhnlaflkj SSC Guru Points: 76202 More actions · Answer 3

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October 4, 2016 at 6:39 am

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Good basics, thanks.

SQLShark SSCrazy Points: 2214 More actions · Answer 4

For the convert to html if you include the [ -notype ] at the end of your line of code the 2 PowerShell related columns will not show up in your report. See the example line below that I use to fetch the vlf's from a server using powershell except this is a conversion to a .csv file. I use the same technique for my html backup report.

\output\VirtualLogFiles_$SQLServerName_$(get-date -f MM_dd_yyyy_HHmm)_$ServerStamp.csv -notype

ewinn SSC Enthusiast Points: 113 More actions · Answer 5

Rather than:

$date=(Get-Date -Format d).toString()

$date=$date.replace("/","-")

I prefer using the format operator -f with a 4-digit year and fully padded days and months in YYYYMMDD order to make sorting easier. Modifying the formatting is very simple:

$date = "{0:yyyyMMddHHmm}" -f (Get-Date)

201610041504

$date = "{0:yyyyMMddHHmmss}" -f (Get-Date)

20161004150441

$date = "{0:yyyy-MM-dd-HH-mm-ss}" -f (Get-Date)

2016-10-04-15-04-41

$date = "{0:yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss}" -f (Get-Date)

2016-10-04 15:04:41

Or in your example:

$date = "{0:M-d-yyyy}" -f (Get-Date)

10-4-2016

With padded day and month:

$date = "{0:MM-dd-yyyy}" -f (Get-Date)

10-04-2016

I typically use this mechanism to output a time-stamped file so I know when the file was created and on which computer. Note that grabbing seconds will most likely result in a unique filename unless the process producing this output can run in under 1000 ms.

Out-File -FilePath ('c:\temp\{0}-{1:yyyyMMddHHmm}-a_meaningful_name.txt' -f $env:COMPUTERNAME,(Get-Date))

-Eric

jim 54774 SSC Journeyman Points: 79 More actions · Answer 6

I don't see the "-notype" as an option for ContertTo-Html, and can't get it to work as suggested in another comment. But it would be nice to be rid of the tacked-on columns! Does anyone know of a way?

SQLShark SSCrazy Points: 2214 More actions · Answer 7

Took me a while to dig this one up use: -ExcludeProperty

Notice I tucked it in prior to the convert to html, works well for my reports using html style output.

| Select * -ExcludeProperty RowError, RowState, HasErrors, Table, ItemArray | ConvertTo-HTML -Head $Header | Out-File