Useful PowerShell Commands

Get-ComputerInfo

Accessing the properties of a command

Get-Computerinfo -Properties csusername
Get-Computerinfo -Properties csusername | Get-Member
Get-ComputerInfo | Format-List OsType,osName,csusername

Write output to the screen, like Echo

Write-Output "Hello World" 

Read Text file

Get-Content filename.txt

Rename-Computer
Restart-Computer
Get-Date
Get-TimeZone

Import csv file The pipe it to another function

import-csv .\filename.csv | 

Rename Files using csv list

If you execute the script in the same directory as the files, you don't have to add the full path, but if it's in a different directory the the full path is needed

import-csv ./rename.csv | rename-item

The CSV File

Path,NewName
dog.jpg,222-dog.jpg
rat.jpg,333-rat.jpg
cat.jpg,111-cat.jpg