Petr Bena's Bl0g

Everything is case insensitive, comments with # symbol

Conditions

if (condition)
{
   #code
} else if (condition)
{
   #code
} else
{
   #code
}

if (condition1 -And condition2 -And !(condition3))
{}

Negations must be in extra brackets ex:

$x = $true
if ($x) {}
if (!($x)) {}

Parameters

There is special block of code in param, that must be first executable code in function or script. Can be after comments.

Example:

#This is a beginning of script file

param
(
        [string] $PackageName = “blah”,

        [parameter(Mandatory=$true)]     
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
        [string] $PackageUrl,

        [parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
        [string] $VariableName
)

You can call the script or function, either with parameters in order in which they are defined like

blah a b c

or with switch

blah -PackageName “a” -PackageUrl “b” -VariableName “c”

Types

[string] $x = “blah”
[bool] $x = $false #or $true
#store output of a command into string
$rev_list = git rev-list HEAD –count | Out-String 
#replace new line
$rev_list = $rev_list.Replace(“n", "").Replace("r”, “”) 

Functions

# Example function with example call of that function

$ErrorActionPreference = “Stop”

function PackageTest
{
    param
    (
        [parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
        [string] $PackageName,

        [parameter(Mandatory=$true)]     
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
        [string] $PackageUrl,

        [parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
        [string] $VariableName
    )

    Write-Host “Looking for $PackageName…    ” -NoNewLine
    if (!(Test-Path $PackageUrl))
    {
        echo “ERROR”
        echo “Unable to find $PackageName at $PackageUrl, you can set the alternative path using -$VariableName=path”
        exit 1
    }
    echo (“OK”);
}

PackageTest “Qt5” “$qt5_path” “qt5_path”