Chapter 2 Quick Reference

Open table as spreadsheet

To	Do This
Produce a list of all the files in a folder	Use the Get-ChildItem cmdlet and supply a value for the folder
Produce a list of all the files in a folder and in the subfolders	Use the Get-ChildItem cmdlet, supply a value for the folder, and specify the recurse argument
Produce a wide output of the results of a previous cmdlet	Use the appropriate cmdlet and pipe the resulting object to the Format-Wide cmdlet
Produce a listing of all the methods available from the Get-ChildItem cmdlet	Use the cmdlet and pipe the results into the Get-Member cmdlet. Use the -membertype argument and supply the Noun method
Produce a popup box	Create an instance of the wshShell object by using the New-Object cmdlet. Use the Popup method
Retrieve the currently logged-on user name	Create an instance of the wshNetwork object by using the New-Object cmdlet. Query the username property
Retrieve a listing of all currently mapped drives	Create an instance of the wshNetwork object by using the New-Object cmdlet. Use the EnumNetworkDrives method