Category Archives: PowerShell
Quickly moving up a directory tree
I am lazy and I have been working recently on optimizing my PowerShell profile to become faster from the command line. My most recent target was a command I run often to move up a directory: > cd ../ Now … Continue reading
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Moving and renaming resource keys in a .resx file
I work on websites where we have several resource files that are localized in many languages. This makes operations like renaming a resource key and moving a resource key to a different file annoying since you must do it across … Continue reading
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A combined Mercurial and Git PowerShell Prompt
A while ago I posted the code I use to create a custom PowerShell prompt to show the status of my Mercurial repositories. Since then I have also started using Git so I updated my prompt to work for both. … Continue reading
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Launching the TortoiseHg log more conveniently from the command line
When working with Mercurial I usually perform most tasks from the command line but often I want to be able to visually explore the history of the whole repository or of a single file. For this I find TortoiseHg’s repository … Continue reading
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Making an executable take pipelined input in PowerShell
It annoys me when I am working with PowerShell try to pipe the results of a cmdlet into a exe which doesn’t understand pipelined data. To solve this problem I began aliasing some of the common programs I would like … Continue reading →
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