Useful DateTime functions - LibraryTime.ps1

re: Useful DateTime functions - LibraryTime.ps1

rei — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:20:45 GMT

Hi,

Speaking of login, could you do a post on startup best practices?

Some stuff on profile.ps1 would be nice, as well as an explanation as to why it's in a separate folder, documents\PSConfiguration (rather than documents\PSH), and how we should organize our stuff in the two folders.

Thanks,

Rei

re: Useful DateTime functions - LibraryTime.ps1

PowerShellTeam — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:32:45 GMT

Rei;

Does this help?

http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/TheStoryBehindTheNamingAndLocationOfPowerShellProfiles.aspx

Re: Organizing -- which two folders are you talking about?

Lee

re: Useful DateTime functions - LibraryTime.ps1

Sourabh — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 01:48:16 GMT

I am getting the following error if I create a LibraryTime.ps1 file (in the PsConfiguration folder) and then try to dot source it in my profile. Is the full path required to dot source a file?

'.\LibraryTime.ps1' is not recognized as a cmdlet, function, operable program, or script file.
At C:\Documents and Settings\sourabhm\My Documents\PSConfiguration\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1:1
+ . <<<< .\LibraryTime.ps1

Thx
-Sourabh

re: Useful DateTime functions - LibraryTime.ps1

PowerShellTeam — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:33:56 GMT

> Is the full path required to dot source a file?

Yes - your startup directory is a function of where you started the shell and can change.

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re: Useful DateTime functions - LibraryTime.ps1

Sourabh — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:04:59 GMT

Thanks Jeffrey. I am now using "$home\My Documents\PSConfiguration\LibraryTime.ps1" and it works great.

RE: calling functions from other scripts

Latest Newsgroup Posts — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:00:33 GMT

One way would be to create a library of functions you could load at start up - see this for an example

re: Useful DateTime functions - LibraryTime.ps1

mdexch — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:31:27 GMT

I used following syntax to Dot in a library script in another script.

With $MyProdRoot a system env. variable pointing to root install directory of our product.

. "$env:MyProdRoot\msexch\bin\LibEx07.ps1"

For some reason following didn't work

. "$MyProdRoot\msexch\bin\LibEx07.ps1"

$MyProdRoot won't resolve !