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function Get-Screenshot ($url) {
  $apiKey  = 'Your-API-key'
  $secret  = 'Your-Secret'
  $urlpart = '?apikey=' + $apiKey + '&url=' + $url
 
  [Void][Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Web")
  $token  = ([System.Web.Security.FormsAuthentication]::HashPasswordForStoringInConfigFile($urlpart + $secret, 'MD5')).tolower() # Won't work if upper case

  $requrl = 'http://www.url2picture.com/Picture/Png' + $urlpart + '&token=' + $token
  Write-Output $requrl

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function Get-UserAgent {
  # Uses PowerShell's prebuilt UA strings. See
  # http://goo.gl/9IGloI
  param (
        [ValidateSet('Firefox','Chrome','InternetExplorer','Opera','Safari')]
        [string]$browsertype
  )
  
  if (!$browsertype) {
    $browsers    = @('Firefox','Chrome','InternetExplorer','Opera','Safari')

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# Show current date/time as a UNIX timestamp
date +%s

# Show the timestamp for an arbitrary date/time
date -d '01/12/2013 16:42:13' +%s

# Convert a timestamp to a date/time
date -d @1357962133

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cat /var/log/nginx/access.log | awk '$9 ~ "200" {print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -hr

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PS> '1,2,3,4,5,6,,,' -replace ','
123456

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PS> '1 is a number, so is 2. I quite like 3 and 4 too' -replace '[ ,.a-zA-Z]'
1234

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$myString = "99 Bottles of beer on the wall!"
$myValue = $myString -replace '[ !,.a-zA-Z]'
Write-Host $myValue

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PS> 'My phone number is 01-234-5678' -replace '[\d-]','#'
My phone number is ###########

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Function Get-UnixDate ($UnixDate) {
   [timezone]::CurrentTimeZone.ToLocalTime(([datetime]'1/1/1970').AddSeconds($UnixDate))
}

# It returns a PowerShell DateTime object, which can be manipulated
# using the standard DateTime methods, eg

PS> $logtime = Get-UnixDate 1269313872.893866062
PS> $logtime
 

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Function Convert-ToUnixDate ($PSdate) {
   $epoch = [timezone]::CurrentTimeZone.ToLocalTime([datetime]'1/1/1970')
   (New-TimeSpan -Start $epoch -End $PSdate).TotalSeconds
}