kabtech

A basic, reasonably strong password generator that avoids some more problematic special characters

function Get-Password()
{
  $strUcase = Get-Random -Count 2 -InputObject (65..90) | % {[char]$_}
  $strLcase = Get-Random -Count 2 -InputObject (97..122) | % {[char]$_}
  $strSymbol = Get-Random -Count 1 -InputObject "!","^","-","_","."
  $strNumber = Get-Random -Count 1 -InputObject (50..57) | % {[char]$_}
 $strLcase2 = Get-Random -Count 2 -InputObject (97..122) | % {[char]$_}

kabtech

The following construct can be used so that $intLocked is an indicator whether you may access a file to write:

try { [IO.File]::OpenWrite($FilePath).close();$intLocked = 0}
catch{$intLocked = 1}

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Hit ctrl-C after you paste, at which point your populated array is ready for use.

$arrList = @();while (!$strStop){$arrList += read-host "Next entry:"}

Or...use a construct like this if you want to be able to signal to a running script that you are done pasting entries:

while ($arrList -notcontains "swordfish"){$arrList += read-host "Paste list or type 'swordfish' to indicate paste is done"}

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CURL equivalent that is not dependent on PowerShell version. NOTE that there is also a .DownloadFile method:

$webclient.DownloadString('http://google.com')

CURLs that intentionally constrain the cryptography protocol:

[System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12;