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To: tacticalogic

Nope, I don’t use either of them. I use Powerdesk, which has many of the same functions built in.


121 posted on 06/30/2010 4:03:58 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (In 2012: The Rookie and The Wookie get booted from the White House.)
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To: BigSkyFreeper
Nope, I don’t use either of them. I use Powerdesk, which has many of the same functions built in.

Powershell is not a file management application, it's a shell/scripting environment. The out-clipboard bit is part of the SoruceForge cmdlets.

If you've got Windows 7, Powershell is installed by default. It was back-ported to run on Vista and XP SP2 and later. Both Powershell and the PSCX community extensions are free to download from MS and SourceForge, respectively.

Even without the community extensions, you send a directory list to your default printer from a PS prompt with:

dir c:/ -recurse | out-printer

You can also send it to a text file or to a .csv file to load into a spreadsheet or database.

If you go back and forth between Windows and *nix systems, Powershell aliases common commands to both Windows and *nix shell equivalents. Both of these will product the same result:

dir c:\ | out-printer

ls c:/ | out-printer

You can also invoke the native DOS version from within Powershell and send that to the printer using:

cmd /c "dir c:\ /b /s" | out-printer

122 posted on 06/30/2010 4:20:14 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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