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The tail and head are two of the most commonly used commands for displaying the contents of a file in Linux.

Windows PowerShell, in its turn, also has equivalents of the Linux tail and head commands.

From this short post you will learn how to use the equivalents of the tail and head commands in Windows PowerShell and how to dynamically print a file’s contents, i.e. follow it like using tail -f. (more…)

The help command is a special command that is used to provide more information on another commands.

In Windows PowerShell the help command can be called at any time to learn more about a command’s usage and syntax, like the available options and how to structure the command to use these options.

However, at first, it may not be so obvious how to actually call the help command in PowerShell and this short post can help you with this. (more…)

The time command in Linux and Unix-like operating systems is used to determine how long a specific command or script will take to run.

In Windows PowerShell there is a built-in Measure-Command, that can be considered as the Linux time command equivalent.

This short post shows how to use the Measure-Command in PowerShell to evaluate the processing time taken by different commands, scripts or programs in their execution. (more…)

While trying to run a PowerShell script you may get an error message that says “cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled on this system. For more information, see about_Execution_Policies at https:/go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=135170.”

This error message is due to the default execution policy set by PowerShell, that determines whether PowerShell scripts can be run on a system.

By default, the execution policy is set to Restricted, which means that PowerShell scripts cannot be run.

To fix this error message, it is required to change the execution policy to RemoteSigned and this post shows how to do this. (more…)