Jeff Hicks

Need to search for or extract a substring inside a PowerShell string? Never fear, PowerShell substring is here! In this article, I guide you through how to ditch objects and search inside strings. The PowerShell substring Although you’ll hear me go on and on about object in the pipeline, there’s nothing wrong with parsing strings…

In this article, I will show you how to test network connectivity between two endpoints using the PowerShell Test-Connection cmdlet. PowerShell Test-Connection vs Ping Since the first time computers were networked together, people have had to test their connections. Just like a dial tone that tells you the phone is ready to use, many IT…

Grep (Global Regular Expression Print) is a commonly used Linux command for searching strings of characters in text files. There’s is no such thing as PowerShell grep. But naturally, you can get the same functionality in PowerShell. You’ll just need to use the Select-String cmdlet instead. In this article, I’ll show you how to get…

One of the features that both makes PowerShell so easy to use yet sometimes difficult to learn is its focus on objects. I have taught PowerShell objects to many people over the last 10 years and this is not as difficult as people make it out to be. That is to say, I think many…

PowerShell is an object-oriented shell for Windows, Linux, and macOS. And as such, you will need to understand how to work with PowerShell objects to get the best out of it. In this article, PowerShell expert Jeff Hicks takes you through the different ways you can use the PowerShell Select-Object cmdlet. I think by nature…

Unless you’ve been stuck in a data center server rack, you’ve most likely heard about the next version of PowerShell, referred to as PowerShell Core.

For those of you jumping into PowerShell on Linux, here are 5 things you’ll want to keep in mind.

Jeff Hicks discusses Microsoft releasing the next generation of PowerShell tools as PowerShell 6.0.

Jeff Hicks shares great information about the PSReadline module, which is now a default part of PowerShell.

In this series, Jeff Hicks discusses PowerShell and PSReadline.

PSReadline can take advantage of something called a key handler. You have already seen some of them in action like the Up and Down arrow keys.

In this series, Jeff Hicks introduces you to the features and benefits of PSReadLiine.