Zero Bug Build » Powershell http://www.zerobugbuild.com James World's blog for www.dotnetinsight.com Sat, 20 Oct 2018 15:03:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Get a .gitignore file for Visual Studio fast with gitignore.io and Powershell http://www.zerobugbuild.com/?p=370&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=get-a-gitignore-file-for-visual-studio-fast-with-gitignore-io-and-powershelll http://www.zerobugbuild.com/?p=370#comments Sun, 21 Sep 2014 13:18:57 +0000 James World http://www.zerobugbuild.com/?p=370 Continue reading →]]> I often use the wonderful service at https://www.gitignore.io to grab a .gitignore file suitable for Visual Studio use. Unfortunately, the file has unix line endings – so I’ve boiled the operation down to a single line of Powershell that sorts that out in one go:

(curl https://www.gitignore.io/api/visualstudio).Content
  -split "`n" -join "`r`n" | set-content .gitignore

]]> http://www.zerobugbuild.com/?feed=rss2&p=370 1 Use Powershell 4 to check file signatures/hashes http://www.zerobugbuild.com/?p=361&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=use-powershell-4-to-check-file-signatureshashes http://www.zerobugbuild.com/?p=361#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2014 09:02:18 +0000 James World http://www.zerobugbuild.com/?p=361 Continue reading →]]> I wasted a couple of DVDs this morning trying to burn a corrupted download of SQL Server from MSDN. Finally the light dawned and I decided to check the file hash. MSDN subscriber downloads have the SHA1 hash on the download page. I didn’t have my usual checker installed yet on my new laptop, and in googling I discovered that Powershell 4 can now do this natively!

The command you need is Get-FileHash – MSDN uses SHA1 rather than the default SHA256 of this command so the following will do it:

Get-FileHash <filepath> -Algorithm SHA1

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