I am currently learning how to use powershell and was wondering how would you make a simple process like this for example.
If the time is between 9am and 12pm then write to 'Get coffee' else write nothing.
-
In the powershell console type: Get-Help about_ifEBGreen– EBGreen2013-05-16 19:48:52 +00:00Commented May 16, 2013 at 19:48
-
possible duplicate: stackoverflow.com/questions/7631564/…Andre Silva– Andre Silva2013-05-16 20:00:56 +00:00Commented May 16, 2013 at 20:00
-
1Hi @lolbol, welcome to stack overflow you will notice from the short responses, that people expect questions to show what you have tried, so at least we can all see some effort put in. The more you put into the question, the more you will get out.David Martin– David Martin2013-05-16 20:25:13 +00:00Commented May 16, 2013 at 20:25
-
I usually refer people to whathaveyoutried dot com :)x0n– x0n2013-05-17 17:52:24 +00:00Commented May 17, 2013 at 17:52
Add a comment
|
3 Answers
There are a lot of ways to do this.
if ((9,10,11) -contains (get-date).Hour) { "get coffee" }
if ((get-date).hour -ge 9 -and (get-date).hour -le 11) { "get coffee" }
if (((get-date -hour 12 -min 0 -sec 0) - (get-date)).hours -in 0..2) { ... }
This might be a fun community wiki question.
1 Comment
EBGreen
I don't think this question needs any more answers, but here is another option: if((Get-Date).Hour -match '9|10|11|12'){'Get-Coffee'}
This is about as short as I can get it...
if(Get-Date | ? {($_.hour -ge 9) -and ($_.hour -le 12)}){"get coffee"}
4 Comments
x0n
Technically that will evaluate true all the way up to 12.59. You really want -le 11, to go to 11.59.
EBGreen
Well, it complies to exactly what the OP stated as the problem definition. There is some ambiguity in the problem definition though since the 9-12 could be minutes or hours.
x0n
Read the question again... hahahaha, sorry. It needed clarification.
BeowulfNode42
this is not the stack exchange site Programming Puzzles & Code Golf, shortening code through the use of abbreviated aliases and lack of formatting is usually not simpler for beginners as the OP actually asked for.
My 2 cents (using .net):
[datetime]$now = [datetime]::now.Tostring("T",[System.Globalization.CultureInfo]::InvariantCulture )
$low = [datetime] "09:00:00 am"
$hi = [datetime] "12:00:00 pm"
if ( $now -ge $low -and $now -le $hi ) { "Coffee Time!" } else {"Work!"}
