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Thursday, July 06, 2006

 


PowerShell Boolean FileMode



Inspired by this Nice piece of Code :

Classic WTF - What is Truth?

I came up with this TypeExtension for PowerShell :

BoolFileMode.ps1xml

<?xml version="1.0encoding="utf-8?>
<Types>
    <Type>
        <Name>System.Boolean</Name>
        <Members>
            <ScriptMethod>
                <Name>File</Name>
                 <Script>
                  if ($this -eq $false){"File Not found"} Else {$True}
                </Script>
            </ScriptMethod>

        </Members>
    </Type>
</Types>


You can load this with this command :

# Execute in same Directory as BoolFileMode.ps1xml

Update-TypeData BoolFileMode.ps1xml


So now you can do things like this :

PoSH>ls foo*


    Directory: Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::E:\Documents and Settings\Mow


Mode                LastWriteTime     Length Name
----                -------------     ------ ----
d----         5/31/2006   8:36 PM            foo
-a---          7/6/2006  10:50 PM         24 foo.txt

# Normal Boolean 

PoSH>$file = ([bool](gc foo.txt))

PoSH>$file
True

PoSH>$file = ([bool](gc foobar.txt))
Get-Content : Cannot find path 'E:\Documents and Settings\Mow\foobar.txt' because it does not exist.
At line:1 char:19
+ $file = ([bool](gc  <<<< foobar.txt))

PoSH>$file
False

# Update the Bool Type to add a FileMode

PoSH>Update-TypeData G:\powershell\BoolFileMode.ps1xml
PoSH>$file = ([bool](gc foo.txt)).file()

PoSH>$file
True

PoSH>$file = ([bool](gc fooBar.txt)).file()
Get-Content : Cannot find path 'E:\Documents and Settings\Mow\fooBar.txt' because it does not exist.
At line:1 char:19
+ $file = ([bool](gc  <<<< fooBar.txt)).file()

PoSH>$file
File Not found


very handy ;-)

# If a bool is a file its not found

PoSH>$true.file()
True
PoSH>$False.file()
File Not found


But on Second tought I did not add this to my profile, as I would Advice you to do (and in your next session this WTF ScriptMethod goes away ;-)

TypeExtensions are Powerfull, but use them with care !

Greetings /\/\o\/\/

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