The Problem: In Windows Powershell, deleting items with Remove-Item causes a confirmation prompt to stop a script from functioning. The prompt says: Confirm The item at [path] has children and the Recurse parameter was not specified. If you continue, all children will be removed with the item. Areyou sure you want to continue? [Y] Yes [...]
I just built a workstation that runs an ongoing set of computations on Windows 7 Professional x64. A main program spawns one process for each physical and virtual core as well as each GPU. I have a hyperthreaded four-core i7 which makes for eight total cores and thus eight individual processes. I also have a [...]
The error “The length of the property is too long. The maximum length is 2 and the length of the value provided is n” is encountered when performing an action on an Active Directory user object within the Exchange Management Shell. Short Answer: Check to see if you have passed an invalid value to one [...]
You’d think this wouldn’t be that hard of a task. However, I spent about an hour wading through misinformation and poor code snippets to figure this out. To determine a file’s size from within PowerShell, use the following snippet: $var = Get-Item [filename] $var.length In my specific case, I used: $file = Get-Item .\g2mdlhlpx.exe $file.length/1KB [...]
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