Powershell

Terminals are a fast and elegant way to manage your system. But who can remember all the commands and switches? These are notes to my future self.

Install & Upgrade

winget install --id Microsoft.Powershell --source winget

doc

Execute

string script = File.ReadAllText(fi.FullName);
using var ps = PowerShell.Create();
ps.AddScript(script).Invoke();

Chrome copy as ps

$session = New-Object Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WebRequestSession
$session.UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/112.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
$session.Cookies.Add((New-Object System.Net.Cookie("Name", "2023-04-16-08", "/", ".google.ch")))
Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing -Uri "https://www.google.ch/" `
-WebSession $session `
-Headers @{
"authority"="www.google.ch"
  "method"="GET"
  "path"="/"
  "scheme"="https"
  "accept"="text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.7"
  "accept-encoding"="gzip, deflate, br"
  "accept-language"="en-GB,en-US;q=0.9,en;q=0.8,de;q=0.7"
  "cache-control"="no-cache"
  ...
}

Save response

$response = Invoke-WebRequest ...
$stream = [System.IO.StreamWriter]::new('.\response.json', $false, [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8)
try {
    $stream.Write($response.Content)
} finally {
    $stream.Dispose()
}