I have multiple INI files that I have to update regularly as new lines are being added in our call center. I can use the get-inicontent script to get the values I'm trying to compare however The ID section sometimes has spaces and sometimes doesn't also and probably the biggest trouble I'm having is scaling. Each INI can have multiple sections labeled the same thing but with a number at the end. I need the ID for each ACD section. See below for an example of my file and what I use to get the value for one ACD. The below script returns each value but it requires individual query for each and note the spaces for those that have tabs. I'd like to figure out a way to return all ACD ID results that ignores the extra spaces. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
INI File:
[ACD1]
ID=1001
[ACD2]
ID=1002
[ACD3]
ID=1003
[Extension1]
ID=50001
[Extension2]
ID=50002
PS Script:
$FileContents = Get-IniContent "C:\Temp\ScriptTest\CTISetupTest.ini"
$FileContents.ACD1.ID
$FileContents.ACD2.' ID'
$FileContents.ACD3.' ID'
Expected Results would be:
1001
1002
1003
Just loop over the keys starting with ACD and then loop over the subkeys ending in ID.
$INI = Get-IniContent 'C:\Temp\ScriptTest\CTISetupTest.ini'
$ACDKeys = ($INI).keys | Where-Object {$_ -like 'acd*'}
foreach ($ACDKey in $ACDKeys) {
$IDKeys = $INI[$ACDKey].Keys | Where-Object {$_ -like '*ID'}
foreach ($IDKey in $IDKeys){
$INI[$ACDKey][$IDKey]
}
}
Related
I am trying to write a PowerShell script to check the column count and see if it satisfies the condition or else throw error or email.
something I have tried:
$columns=(Get-Content "C:\Users\xs15169\Desktop\temp\OEC2_CFLOW.txt" | select -First 1).Split(",")
$Count=columns.count
if ($count -eq 280)
echo "column count is:$count"
else
email
I'm going to assume your text file is in CSV format, I can't imagine what format you're working with if it's a text-file table and not formatted as CSV.
If your CSV has headers
Process the CSV file, and count the number of properties on the resulting Powershell object.
$columnCount = #( ( Import-Csv '\path\to\file.txt' ).PSObject.Properties ).Count
We need to force the Properties object to an array (which is the #() syntax) to accurately get the count. The PSObject property is a hidden property for metadata about an object in Powershell, which is where we look for the Properties (column names) and get the count of how many there are.
CSV without headers
If your CSV doesn't have headers, Import-Csv requires you to manually specify the headers. There are tricks you can do to build out unique column names on-the-fly, but they are overly complex for simply getting a column count.
To take what you've already tried above, we can get the data in the first line and process the number of columns, though you were doing it incorrectly in the question. Here's how to properly do it:
$columnCount = ( ( Get-Content "\path\to\file.txt" | Select-Object -First 1 ) -Split ',' ).Count
What was wrong with the original
Both above solutions consolidate getting the column count down to one line of code. But in your original sample, you made a couple small mistakes:
$columns=( Get-Content "\path\to\file.txt" | select -First 1 ).Split(",")
# You forgot to prepend "columns" with a $. Should look like the below line
$Count=$columns.count
And you forgot to use curly braces with your if block:
if ($count -eq 280) {
echo "column count is:$count"
} else {
email
}
As for using the -Split operator vs. the .Split() method - this is purely stylistic preference on my part, and using Split() is perfectly valid.
I am using a text file as the backend for an application that I am developing. I first started off leaving the text file in a human-readable format but I decided that there was no sense in that figured it would be best to leave out formatting.
Where I am now in the backend dev process is creating a single-line hashtable with identical keys but different values for each entry. Seems logical and easy to work with.
Here is a mock-up of the entries in the text file:
#{'bName'='1xx'; 'bTotal'='1yy'; 'bSet'='1zz'}
#{'bName'='2xx'; 'bTotal'='2yy'; 'bSet'='2zz'}
#{'bName'='3xx'; 'bTotal'='3yy'; 'bSet'='3zz'}
As you can see, the keys for each entry are identical, however, the values are going to be different. (The numerical and repetitious nature of the values are purely coincidental and put in place for the sake of a mock-up. Actual values will not be numerically-oriented and won't be repetitious as seen in the example.)
I am able to access keys and values by typing:
$hash = Get-Content .\Desktop\Test.txt | Out-String | iex
which outputs:
Name Value
---- -----
bName 1xx
bTotal 1yy
bSet 1zz
bName 2xx
bTotal 2yy
bSet 2zz
bName 3xx
bTotal 3yy
bSet 3zz
What I ultimately want to do is gather each of the values for bName, bTotal, and bSet so that I can append each to a separate WinForms ComboBox. The WinForms part will be simple, I am just having a bit of an issue with getting the values from each hashtable in the text file.
I tried:
$hash.Values | ?{$hash.Keys -contains 'bName'}
but it just prints out every $hash.Value regardless of the $hash.Key match given in the pipe.
I understand that $hash is an array and I figured I may have to pipe out each iteration in a foreach ($hash | %{}) loop but I'm not quite sure the correct way to do this. For example, when I try:
$hash | $_.Keys
or
$hash | $_.Values
it isn't treating each iteration like a hashtable.
What am I doing wrong here? Am I going about it in a convoluted way while there is a much easier way to accomplish this? I am open to all sorts of ideas or suggestions.
As an afterthought: It is kind of funny how often an obvious solution presents itself when you step away and divert your attention towards something else.
I went to grab lunch and I can't, for the life of me, begin to comprehend why I didn't realize that I could just very easily do this:
$hash.bName
or:
$hash.bTotal
or:
$hash.bSet
That will do exact as I was wanting to do. However, considering the answers provided, I may go a different route in terms of using an .ini file in CSV format rather than creating an array of hashtables.
One way of storing hashtables in a text file is the INI format.
[hashtable1]
bName=1xx
bTotal=1yy
bSet=1zz
[hashtable2]
bName=2xx
bTotal=2yy
bSet=2zz
[hashtable3]
bName=3xx
bTotal=3yy
bSet=3zz
INI files are basically a hashtable of hashtables in text form. They can be read like this:
$ht = #{}
Get-Content 'C:\path\to\hashtables.txt' | ForEach-Object {
$_.Trim()
} | Where-Object {
$_ -notmatch '^(;|$)'
} | ForEach-Object {
if ($_ -match '^\[.*\]$') {
$section = $_ -replace '\[|\]'
$ht[$section] = #{}
} else {
$key, $value = $_ -split '\s*=\s*', 2
$ht[$section][$key] = $value
}
}
and written like this:
$ht.Keys | ForEach-Object {
'[{0}]' -f $_
foreach ($key in $ht[$_].Keys) {
'{0}={1}' -f $key, $ht[$_][$key]
}
} | Set-Content 'C:\path\to\hashtables.txt'
Individual values in such a hashtable of hashtables can be accessed like this:
$ht['section']['key']
or like this:
$ht.section.key
Another option would be to store each hashtable in a separate file
hashtable1.txt:
bName=1xx
bTotal=1yy
bSet=1zz
hashtable2.txt.
bName=2xx
bTotal=2yy
bSet=2zz
hashtable3.txt:
bName=3xx
bTotal=3yy
bSet=3zz
That would allow you to import each file into a hashtable via ConvertFrom-StringData:
$ht1 = Get-Content 'C:\path\to\hashtable1.txt' | Out-String |
ConvertFrom-Stringdata
Writing the files would basically be the same as above (there is no ConverTo-StringData cmdlet):
$ht1.Keys | ForEach-Object {
'{0}={1}' -f $_, $ht[$_]
} | Set-Content 'C:\path\to\hashtables1.txt'
PowerShell has built in csv handling so it makes it a good choice to use in this case. So, assuming you had your data stored in a file in the standard csv format with headers:
"bName","bTotal","bSet"
"1xx","1yy","1zz"
"2xx","2yy","2zz"
"3xx","3yy","3zz"
Then you import your data like this:
$data = Import-Csv $path
Now you have an array of PsCustomObject and each header in the csv file is a property of the object. So if, for example, you wanted to get the bTotal of the second object you would do the following:
$data[1].bTotal
2yy
I am currently using the below PS script to check if the currents months MS patches are installed on the system. The script is set to check the $env:COMPUTERNAME.mbsa and the Patch_NA.txt file and send the result to the $env:COMPUTERNAME.csv file.
I now need to modify this script to also pull information from other POS devices in the same location (C:\Users\Cambridge\SecurityScans) and send the results to the $env:COMPUTERNAME.csv file.
The POS devices are listed like this:
172.26.210.1.mbsa
172.26.210.2.mbsa
172.26.210.3.mbsa
and so forth.
The IP range at all our locations (last octet) is 1 - 60. Any ideas on how I can set this up?
Script:
$logname = "C:\temp\PatchVerify\$env:COMPUTERNAME.csv"
[xml]$x=type "C:\Users\Cambridge\SecurityScans\$env:COMPUTERNAME.mbsa"
#This list is created based on a text file that is provided.
$montlyPatches = type "C:\Temp\PatchVerify\Patches_NA.txt"|
foreach{if ($_ -mat"-KB(? <KB>\d+)"){$matches.KB}}
$patchesNotInstalled=$x.SecScan.check | where {$_.id -eq 500} |foreach{`
$_.detail.updatedata|where {$_.isinstalled -eq "false"}}|Select -expandProperty KBID
$patchesInstalled =$x.SecScan.check | where {$_.id -eq 500} |foreach{`
$_.detail.updatedata|where {$_.isinstalled -eq "true"}}|Select -expandProperty KBID
"Store,Patch,Present"> $logname
$store = "$env:COMPUTERNAME"
foreach ($patch in $montlyPatches)
{
$result = "Unknown"
if ( $patchesInstalled -contains $patch)
{
$result = "YES"
}
if ( $patchesNotInstalled -contains $patch)
{
$result = "NO"
}
"$store,KB$($patch),$result" >>$logname
}
You can find lots of information on creating functions on the web, but a simple example would be:
Function Check-Patches{
Param($FileName)
$logname = "C:\temp\PatchVerify\$FileName.csv"
[xml]$x=type "C:\Users\Cambridge\SecurityScans\$FileName.mbsa"
The rest of your existing code goes here...
}
Check-Patches "$env:ComputerName"
For($i=1;$i -le 60;$i++){
Check-Patches "172.26.210.$i"
}
If you need me to break down anything in that let me know and I'll go into further explanation, but from what you already have it looks like you have a decent grasp on PowerShell theory and just needed to know what resources are available.
Edit: I updated my example to better fit your script, having it accept a file name, and then applying that file name to the $logname and $x variables within the function.
The break down...
First we declare that we are creating a Function using the Function keyword. Following that is the name of the function that you will use later to call it, and an opening curly brace to start the scriptblock that makes up the actual function.
Next is the Param line, which in this case is very simple only declaring one variable as input. This could alternatively be done as Function Check-Patches ($FileName){ but when you start getting into more advanced functions that only gets confusing, so my recommendation is to stick with putting the parameters inside the function's scriptblock. This is the first thing you want inside of your function in most cases, excluding any Help that you would write up for the function.
Then we have updated lines for $logname and [xml]$x that use the $FileName that the function gets as input.
After that comes all of your code that parses the patch logs, and outputs to your CSV, and the closing curly brace that ends the scriptblock, and the function.
Then we call it for the ComputerName, and run a For loop. The For loop runs everything between 1 and 60, and for each loop it uses that number as the last octet of the file name to feed into the function and check those files.
A few comments on the rest of your code. $monthlypatches = could be changed to = type | ?{$_ -match "-KB(? <KB>\d+)"}|%{$matches.KB} so that the results are filtered before the ForEach loop, which could cut down on some time.
On the $patchesInstalled and $patchesNotInstalled lines you don't need the backtick at the end of that line. You can naturally have a linebreak after the beginning of the scriptblock for a ForEach loop. Having it there can be hard to see later if the script breaks, and if there is anything after it (including a space) the script can break and throw errors that are hard to track down.
Lastly, you loop through $x twice, and then $monthlyPatches once, and do a lot of individual writes to the log file. I would suggest creating an array, filling it with custom objects that have 3 properties (Store, Patch, and Present), and then outputting that at the end of the function. That changes things a little bit, but then your function outputs an object, which you could pipe to Export-CSV, or maybe later you could want it to do something else, but at least then you'd have it. To do that I'd run $x through a switch to see if things are installed, then I'd flush out the array by setting all of the monthlypatches that aren't already in that array to Unknown. That would go something like:
Function Check-Patches{
Param($FileName)
$logname = "C:\temp\PatchVerify\$FileName.csv"
[xml]$x=type "C:\Users\Cambridge\SecurityScans\$FileName.mbsa"
$PatchStatus = #()
#This list is created based on a text file that is provided.
$monthlyPatches = GC "C:\Temp\PatchVerify\Patches_NA.txt"|?{$_ -match "-KB(? <KB>\d+)"} | %{$matches.KB}
#Create objects for all the patches in the updatelog that were in the monthly list.
Switch($x.SecScan.Check|?{$_.KBID -in $monthlyPatches -and $_.id -eq 500}){
{$_.detail.updatedata.isinstalled -eq "true"}{$PatchStatus+=[PSCustomObject][Ordered]#{Store=$FileName;Patch=$_.KBID;Present="YES"};Continue}
{$_.detail.updatedata.isinstalled -eq "false"}{$PatchStatus+=[PSCustomObject][Ordered]#{Store=$FileName;Patch=$_.KBID;Present="NO"};Continue}
}
#Populate all of the monthly patches that weren't found on the machine as installed or failed
$monthlyPatches | ?{$_ -notin $PatchStatus.Patch} | %{$PatchStatus += [PSCustomObject][Ordered]#{Store=$FileName;Patch=$_;Present="Unknown"}}
#Output results
$PatchStatus
}
#Check patches on current computer
Check-Patches "$env:ComputerName"|Export-Csv "C:\temp\PatchVerify\$env:ComputerName.csv" -NoTypeInformation
#Check patches on POS Devices
For($i=1;$i -le 60;$i++){
Check-Patches "172.26.210.$i"|Export-Csv "C:\temp\PatchVerify\172.26.210.$i.csv" -NoTypeInformation
}
I'm reading in an csv file (list of students, school, birthdays, etc) creating their login names and exporting the data to another csv that will be imported into another system.
Everything is working great except i can only get one line of data in my csv file (the last user name). i assume it is overwriting the same line each time. Doing this in powershell. help. Here's my code:
Add-PSSnapin Quest.ActiveRoles.ADManagement
#import list of students from hourly IC extract
$users = Import-Csv C:\Users\edge.brandon\Desktop\enrollment\mbcextract.csv |
where {$_.'grade' -ne 'PK' -and $_.'name' -ne 'Ombudsman' -and $_.'name' -ne 'Ombudsman MS' -and $_.'name' -ne 'z Transition Services' -and $_.'name' -ne 'z Home Services'}
if ($users) {
foreach ($u in $users) {
# sets middle name and initial to null so that variable does not cary over to next student if they have no middle name
$middle= $null
$mi= $null
$first= ($u.'firstname')
$last= ($u.'lastname')
$middle= ($u.'middlename')
$birth= ($u.'birthdate')
$grade= ($u.'grade')
$id= ($u.'studentNumber')
$schoolid= ($u.'sch.number')
#Removes spaces, apostrophes, hyphens, periods, commas from name
$first=$first.Replace(" ", "")
$middle=$middle.Replace(" ", "")
$last=$last.Replace(" ", "")
$first=$first.Replace("'", "")
$middle=$middle.Replace("'", "")
$last=$last.Replace("'", "")
$first=$first.Replace("-", "")
$middle=$middle.Replace("-", "")
$last=$last.Replace("-", "")
$first=$first.Replace(".", "")
$middle=$middle.Replace(".", "")
$last=$last.Replace(".", "")
$first=$first.Replace(",", "")
$middle=$middle.Replace(",", "")
$last=$last.Replace(",", "")
# sets 1st and middle initial. also sets mmdd of birth
$fi= $first.substring(0,1)
$mi= $middle.substring(0,1)
$mmdd =$birth.substring(0,4)
#sets username and then makes sure it truncates anything after 20 characters
$un= ($last + $fi + $mi +$mmdd)
$un= $un.substring(0,20)
}
} **$users |
select $id,$un,$first,$last,$schoolid,$grade,$upn,"1"," ","0" | export-csv MBC.csv**
Remove-PSSnapin Quest.ActiveRoles.ADManagement
i found a mistake i changed the $users to $u ($u | select $id,$un,$first,$last,$schoolid,$grade,$upn,"1"," ","0" | export-csv mbc.csv -NoTypeInformation)
and added a break point step thru the code and if i open the csv file as the code is running the first line of the csv file populates correctly with each pass. it continues to write on the first line...I tried the append statement but it didn't help...how do u make it go to the next line in the csv file (ie write a line of data on row 1, go to row 2 write another line of data)
I can't provide a full answer (I don't have csv data to test with offhand and don't know the relevant bits of powershell well enough from memory to comment specifically) but at the very least part of the problem is likely that you are using the values of variables in your select statement and I can't imagine you actually meant to do that.
I imagine you meant to grab the properties with those names instead (select id,un,first,last,... instead of select $id,$un,$first,$last,...).
I know this is nearly two years old, but others might find this topic.
The problem here is that the export-csv will recreate the file each time it is called. Combine that with the fact that you are sending export-csv the variable values calculated for the last record in $users, and that would explain your results.
I found an article that outlines how to do what you're intending to do (I have a similar project that I'm starting on). Working with Custom Objects: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff730946.aspx
As in the article, you would create a array of custom objects, then load each object with property values from your calculated variable values, as you read through the objects in $users
At the end, you would export your array of objects (not $users or $un) using the export-csv command.
Using PowerShell I would like to capture user input, compare the input to data in a comma delimited CSV file and write corresponding data to a variable.
Example:
A user is prompted for a “Store_Number”, they enter "10".
The input, “10” is then compared to the data in the first position
or column of the CSV file.
Data, such as “District_Number” in the corresponding position /
column is captured and written to a variable.
I have gotten this method to work with an Excel file (.xlsx) but have found it to be terribly slow. Hoping that PowerShell can read a CSV file more efficiently.
Link to an example CSV file here:
Store_Number,Region,District,NO_of_Devices,Go_Live_Date
1,2,230,10,2/21/2013
2,2,230,10,2/25/2013
3,2,260,12,3/8/2013
4,2,230,10,3/4/2013
5,2,260,10,3/4/2013
6,2,260,10,3/11/2013
7,2,230,10,2/25/2013
8,2,230,10,3/4/2013
9,2,260,10,5/1/2013
10,6,630,10,5/23/2013
What you should be looking at is Import-Csv
Once you import the CSV you can use the column header as the variable.
Example CSV:
Name | Phone Number | Email
Elvis | 867.5309 | Elvis#Geocities.com
Sammy | 555.1234 | SamSosa#Hotmail.com
Now we will import the CSV, and loop through the list to add to an array. We can then compare the value input to the array:
$Name = #()
$Phone = #()
Import-Csv H:\Programs\scripts\SomeText.csv |`
ForEach-Object {
$Name += $_.Name
$Phone += $_."Phone Number"
}
$inputNumber = Read-Host -Prompt "Phone Number"
if ($Phone -contains $inputNumber)
{
Write-Host "Customer Exists!"
$Where = [array]::IndexOf($Phone, $inputNumber)
Write-Host "Customer Name: " $Name[$Where]
}
And here is the output:
Old topic, but never clearly answered. I've been working on similar as well, and found the solution:
The pipe (|) in this code sample from Austin isn't the delimiter, but to pipe the ForEach-Object, so if you want to use it as delimiter, you need to do this:
Import-Csv H:\Programs\scripts\SomeText.csv -delimiter "|" |`
ForEach-Object {
$Name += $_.Name
$Phone += $_."Phone Number"
}
Spent a good 15 minutes on this myself before I understood what was going on. Hope the answer helps the next person reading this avoid the wasted minutes!
(Sorry for expanding on your comment Austin)
So I figured out what is wrong with this statement:
Import-Csv H:\Programs\scripts\SomeText.csv |`
(Original)
Import-Csv H:\Programs\scripts\SomeText.csv -Delimiter "|"
(Proposed, You must use quotations; otherwise, it will not work and ISE will give you an error)
It requires the -Delimiter "|", in order for the variable to be populated with an array of items. Otherwise, Powershell ISE does not display the list of items.
I cannot say that I would recommend the | operator, since it is used to pipe cmdlets into one another.
I still cannot get the if statement to return true and output the values entered via the prompt.
If anyone else can help, it would be great. I still appreciate the post, it has been very helpful!