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Enterprise PowerShell Scripting Bootcamp

You're reading from   Enterprise PowerShell Scripting Bootcamp The fastest way to learn PowerShell scripting

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787288287
Length 238 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Brenton J.W. Blawat Brenton J.W. Blawat
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Enterprise PowerShell Scripting FREE CHAPTER 2. Script Structure, Comment Blocks, and Script Logging 3. Working with Answer Files 4. String Encryption and Decryption 5. Interacting with Services, Processes, Profiles, and Logged on Users 6. Evaluating Scheduled Tasks 7. Determining Disk Statistics 8. Windows Features and Installed Software Detection 9. File Scanning 10. Optimizing Script Execution Speed 11. Improving Performance by Using Regular Expressions 12. Overall Script Workflow, Termination Files, and Merging Data Results 13. Creating the Windows Server Scanning Script and Post-Execution Cleanup Index

Dynamically building expressions

When you are creating a script to search for strings with regular expressions, the search pattern may need to change with each execution. Instead of updating your regular expressions each time you run the script, PowerShell offers the ability to dynamically build regular expressions. For example, if you needed to search files for members of an Active Directory group that frequently changed, you would need to update the expression each time you ran the script. Instead you could query the Active Directory group during runtime, and dynamically build the regular expression for searching. This provides the flexibility to change search terms on-the-fly, and doesn't require you to edit your script for each execution.

To start, you will need to declare an array of objects to feed into the regular expression. In this case, we will define "administrator", "password", and "username" and set them in the $myarray variable. You then continue...

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