SAS 025 – In the Lab – Intro to PowerShell

In this lab episode I run through a recent PowerShell project.  This is a very basic example will give you an idea what can be done with PowerShell.  The YouTube video for this episode can be found at https://youtu.be/SXv-ZVV9ioc.   As promised I have included the final scripts below. ##########################demo.ps1##################### #Define variables $webdata = “” $complete = “” #scrape website content to variable $webdata = Invoke-WebRequest “www.sysadminshow.com” while ($complete -ne “1”) { if($webdata -like “*SysAdmin Show*”) # check for specific string { write-host “Found it!” $complete = “1” Start-Process calc.exe } else { write-host “Not Ready” } Start-Sleep -Seconds 1 } ####################launch.bat##################### powershell -WindowStyle Hidden “c:\scripts\demo.ps1”