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Wednesday, December 07, 2005

 


Monad -and More bytes with -band = shorter script



For the script MSH Show-Byte Function , I found a much shorter solution yesterday :



MSH>$byte = 23
MSH>for ($i=0;$i -lt 8;$i++){if ($byte -band [math]::pow(2,$i)) {"$i Set"} else {"$i"} }
0 Set
1 Set
2 Set
3
4 Set
5
6
7
Exept from the nicer layout, does does basicly the same, gives you the bits that are set in a byte.
so now it's also easy to make this script, to only 14 lines.
get AD user allowed Logonhours from MSH
Another thing you might notice is the $bits array is gone.
that's becouse I only made this workaround, because I forgot about this :

[math]::pow(2,0)

that's another thing I like about Monad it forces me to think about things I once did know but are now hidden in libraries and Past&Copy files.

so, it's not alway's is a bad thing to re-invent the weel.(as you might find a cheaper way to make it (shorter / easier), and refresh some old Math on the way. ;-) thx Markus

also nice is I think the way I came to use the Binary AND function.

It started like this :


MSH>(gi .) | gm
MSH>(gi .) | gm

TypeName: System.IO.DirectoryInfo

Name MemberType Definition
---- ---------- ----------
....
....
Mode ScriptProperty System.Object Mode {get=$catr = "";


then I did see the Mode script property, that got me thinking as this is a bin value also, let's look how it's done :

so I did :

MSH>(gi .) | gm | fl
....
.....

TypeName : System.IO.DirectoryInfo
Name : Mode
MemberType : ScriptProperty
Definition : System.Object Mode {get=$catr = "";
if ( $this.Attributes -band 16 ) { $catr += "d" } else { $catr += "z" };
if ( $this.Attributes -band 32 ) { $catr += "a" } else { $catr += "-" } ;
if ( $this.Attributes -band 1 ) { $catr += "r" } else { $catr += "-" } ;
if ( $this.Attributes -band 2 ) { $catr += "h" } else { $catr += "-" } ;
if ( $this.Attributes -band 4 ) { $catr += "s" } else { $catr += "-" } ;
$catr;}


then this in the Monad dir :


MSH>match-string "-band" *.txt
about_Comparison_operators.help.txt:148: -band bitwise and 10 -band 3 2
about_Comparison_operators.help.txt:151: When the -band is used to compare values, the compared bits must
about_where.help.txt:30: -band Bitwise and
about_where.help.txt:61: -band bitwise AND


and that got me to this remake of the scripts.

I think a nice example how Monad teaches you about itself.

to bad the drive-example, is gone to the host also, as it was also a nice example of this (see Tuning MSH in your Profile )


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