Why such alias doesn't work? In my opinion there is problem with duplicated quotation marks.
New-Alias -Name "chrome" -Value ""C:\Program Files
(x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"
--user-data-dir="%APPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data" --disk-cache-dir="%LocalAppData%\Google\Chrome\User Data""
To add to #boxdog's comment, pointing to the alias documentation, you must point your alias to a function if you want parameters.
Consider adding this to your $profile to accomplish your goal:
function Start-Chrome {
$argList = #(
"--user-data-dir=`"$Env:AppData\Google\Chrome\User Data`""
"--disk-cache-dir=`"$Env:LocalAppData\Google\Chrome\User Data`""
)
& "${Env:ProgramFiles(x86)}\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" #argList
}
New-Alias -Name chrome -Value Start-Chrome
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I want a powershell script to run each time a user login to Windows by placed in: Shell:common startup.
This script must add about 50 Regkey's in HKCU, which is setting/path for Presetfolders for a application.
I want to use Powershell and have tried this command adding the RegKey (This command needs to be repeated for each 50 regkeys!):
New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKCU:\Software\AppName' -Name 'PresetFolder' -PropertyType String -Value '$env:userprofile\Documents\AppName\Presets1' -Force
New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKCU:\Software\AppName' -Name 'PresetFolder' -PropertyType String -Value '$env:userprofile\Documents\AppName\Presets2' -Force .......
When using "$env:userprofile" instead of c:\Users\MyUserProfile\Documents\.... the -value in the RegKey will be: "$env:userprofile\Documents\NewFolder\Presets" and not as wanted: "c:\Users\MyUserProfile\Documents\NewFolder\Presets".
I need a Variable for each userprofile!
Alternatively I can after Program installation by using admin-account, I can exported all RegKey's as a .reg-file. Before using the powershell-script to merge the RegKeys everytime a user is logging in Windows, I now need to search and replace the value of the path (-Value) from AdminUserProfil-path into a variable for each user running the script.
Part of the Reg-file:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AppName\Version]
"HelpDocPath"="C:\Users\\AdminUserprofiles\\Documents\\AppName\\Version\\HTML Help\\en"
"ExciterCacheInstallPath"="C:\\Program Files\\AppName\\Version\\Exciter Cache"
"DSPResourceFilesInstallPath"="C:\\Program Files\\AppName\\Version/Resources"
"InstallPath"="C:\\Program Files\\AppName\\InstallFolder"
"PresetFolder"="C:\\Users\\AdminUserprofiles\\Documents\\AppName\\Version\\Presets\\Global Presets"\
Hope anyone can help?
What do I need to type for the right path, so each user will have there own path? Do I need a variable fo rusers or..?
Thank you.
Define $env:USERPROFILE as a variable so you can call it, otherwise PS will just output what you have typed, which is what is happening in this case.
$path = "$env:USERPROFILE"
New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKCU:\Software\AppName' -Name 'PresetFolder' -PropertyType String -Value '$path\Documents\AppName\Presets1' -Force
I am currently attempting to create a command that opens an admin Powershell from the right click context menu. For context, context menu commands run in CMD.
My issue is that I am trying to cd into the directory where the right click occurs. The below command works just fine for most directories, but if the directory path contains a space, then it will only try to move into the portion of the path before the space, throwing an error. My understanding is that the current directory is passed in through %V but when I run the command echo %V using the same process, it splits paths with a space onto 2 lines, so I assume the parts of the path are stored in separate strings?
Powershell -noexit "Start-Process 'C:\Users\<me>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Windows PowerShell\Windows PowerShell.lnk' -ArgumentList '-noexit','Set-Location -literalPath `"%V`"' -Verb RunAs"
I have updated the above command to match a suggestion below, and when right clicking on the desktop (which previously worked due to a lack of spaces) I now get the following error:
Set-Location : Cannot find path 'C:\Users\<me>\Desktop`' because it does not exist.
At line:1 char:1
+ Set-Location -literalPath `C:\Users\<me>\Desktop`
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (C:\Users\<me>\Desktop`:String) [Set-Location], ItemNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PathNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.SetLocationCommand
Note that in both of the above code blocks, <me> is my actual username.
I've been tearing my hair out trying to put quotes around the path but I can't seem to get Powershell to put the quotes in due to the fact that I already use both single and double quotes.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.
Edit:
For those still looking for an answer, I ran the following Powershell script to add functional commands to my context menu:
$menu = 'Open Windows PowerShell Here as Administrator'
$command = "$PSHOME\powershell.exe -NoExit -NoProfile -Command ""Set-Location '%V'"""
'directory', 'directory\background', 'drive' | ForEach-Object {
New-Item -Path "Registry::HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\$_\shell" -Name runas\command -Force |
Set-ItemProperty -Name '(default)' -Value $command -PassThru |
Set-ItemProperty -Path {$_.PSParentPath} -Name '(default)' -Value $menu -PassThru |
Set-ItemProperty -Name HasLUAShield -Value ''
}
The answer was found from How do I start PowerShell from Windows Explorer?
If you want to avoid space issues, you can reuse " by escaping it with ` in a string.
For example :
$command = "Set-Location `"C:\temp\test space`""
String will become this and spaces will be handled correctly :
Set-Location "C:\temp\test space"
I want to create an alias that will display my home directory and all of it's sub-directories.
The alias that I can create is-
new-alias -name myd -value get-childitem
But I need to display both the home directory and sub directories using one command. Can I assign multiple values for an alias?
You should create a function and do that:
function myd {Get-ChildItem -Recurse }
Then alias that if you wish:
New-Alias -Name myname -Value myd
You can directly call the "myd" also.
I wanted to set an alias for listing files in the directory, but Set-Alias -name lf -value ls -file does not seem to work. I intend to use this the Unix alias way.
An alias can't do that. From the help for Set-Alias:
You can create an alias for a cmdlet, but you cannot create an alias for a command that consists of a cmdlet and its parameters.
However, using a technique called "splatting", a function can do it easily:
function lf {
ls -file #args
}
For more information, see help about_splatting.
Example 5 from Get-Help Set-Alias -Full is what you want:
Function lsfile {Get-Childitem -file}
Set-Alias lf lsfile
Append to the answer from #mike-z .
You can put the function definition into the PowerShell profile so that you can reuse it opening shell again.
test-path $profile
// Ensure it doesn't exists before creating the profile!
new-item -path $profile -itemtype file -force
notepad $profile
Simply put the code into the file:
function lf { ls -file #args }
You can check the details from official documentation.
Starting up notepad++ or many other GUI applications in Windows that will accepted fully qualified filenames of documents on the command line, but which do not accept them if they are not fully qualified, is often done in DOS/Windows batch files like this:
#echo off
start "notepad++" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" %*
The above, if saved as "npp.cmd" will let you type "npp foo.txt" and it will work.
Note that without the npp.cmd, even typing out the full path to the exe, but not fully qualifying the file to edit doesn't work, like this:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" foo.txt
This however, DOES work:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" c:\users\warren\foo.txt
A way to easily work around this limitation is to make a batch file (.cmd) as shown at the top of this file. I'm learning PowerShell and trying to find the equivalent magic to the "start .... %*" incantation in the batchfile at the top. I believe it would have to be a 'powershell function'.
Here's what I have so far:
new-item -path alias:nppapp -value "C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe"
function npp { nppapp $args }
The above is equivalent, in the end to simply an alias, because $args is really not equivalent to %*, in that it does not do parameter expansion. I think I need something like this:
new-item -path alias:nppapp -value "C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe"
function npp { nppapp globexpand($args) }
globexpand is of course, a placeholder, for some kind of expansion/globbing routine, which I haven't been able to find yet in PowerShell.
try this:
new-item -path alias:nppapp -value "C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe"
function npp { nppapp (join-path -Path $pwd -ChildPath $args[0]) }
$pwd is an automatic variable with the current working path as value
Edit:
function npp {
if ($args[0] -match '.:\\.+')
{
nppapp $args[0]
}
else
{
nppapp (join-path -Path $pwd -ChildPath $args[0]) }
}