Powershell

Keyboard shortcuts for Powershell and Windows Terminal App

  • Normal shortcuts like CTRL+A / CTRL+C / CTRL+V

  • CTRL+Shift+T new tab

  • ALT+- new pane

  • CTRL+TAB to switch tabs

  • CTRL+ALT+1 goto first tab

  • ALT+up/down switch panes

  • CTRL+Shift+W close focused pane

  • CTRL+left/right jump word back-/forwards

  • CTRL+Backspace delete word

Profile handling

  • Edit profile

notepad.exe $profile

  • Reload profile

&$profile

Find a command

Get-Command -Noun <search_string>

  • To find it’s location

Get-Command <cmd>

Read manual page

Get-Help <command> -Examples

Show end of file with continuos entries

Get-Content -Tail 10 -Wait <Filename>

List directory sorted by last updated timestamp

Get-ChildItem | Sort-Object LastWriteTime

List running processes

Get-Process

List logged in users

query user /server:$SERVER

Run command as another user

  • As normal user

Start-Process -FilePath "path\to\exe" -ArgumentList "parameter1", "parameter2" -Verb RunAs -Credential <username>

  • As administrator

Start-Process -FilePath "path\to\exe" -ArgumentList "parameter1", "parameter2" -Verb RunAs

Run command every x seconds

while($true) { Get-Process | findstr /s foo; Start-Sleep -Seconds 10 }

Measure execution time of a command

Measure-Command {some.exe param1 param2}

Get current user

env:username

Start a service

Start-Service -Name "sshd"
Set-Service -Name "sshd" -StartupType Automatic

Show Routing table

Get-NetRoute

Show IP adresses

Get-NetIPAddress

List all member (methods and properties) of an object

  • e.g. from process edge

Get Process -Name msedge | Get-Member

Filter objects

Get-PSDrive | Where-Object { $_.free -gt 1 }

Count lines

netstat -an | findstr /s LISTEN | Measure-Object -line

Loop

Get Process -Name msedge | ForEach-Object { $_.Kill() }

Recursive directory actions

get-childitem -Recurse C:\Users | foreach-object { S_.Name }

File Operations

  • Copy-Item

  • Move-Item

  • Rename-Item

  • Remove-Item

Get product id of an app

get-wmiobject Win32_Product | Format-Table IdentifyingNumber, Name -AutoSize