Archive of entries posted on April 2013

PowerShell Best Practice #1 – Use Single Quotes

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I’m going to kick off this series with a no-brainer. In PowerShell, there are 2 ways to quote strings, using single-quotes (‘) or double-quotes (“). This is probably not a surprise to you if you’ve seen PowerShell scripts before. A “best practice” in PowerShell is that you should always default to using single-quotes unless you …

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PowerShell Best Practices

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I’ve seen several posts on PowerShell best practices, and even read Ed Wilson’s book on the subject. There is some commonality in the lists in the obvious places (verb-noun, output objects, format your code nicely), and some disagreement in other areas (code signing, for example). I also see a great amount of variation in use …

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