Use PowerShell utilities in your Windows CMD scripts
Richard
September 11, 2018
Powershell, Scripting
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Want a random number in your Windows command file? This little trick works wonders and uses PowerShell to generate the number, mapping the returned value to a script variable.
for /f “usebackq” %%i in (`PowerShell $randomNumber ^= Get-Random^; $randomNumber;^`) do set VALUE=%%i
echo Value is %VALUE%
Use the same pattern to enrich your CMD scripts with other PowerShell utilities and code, for example…
for /f “usebackq” %%i in (`PowerShell $date ^= Get-Date^; $date.ToString^(‘yyyy-MM-ddThh:mm:ss’^)`) do set LOGDATE=%%i
echo Date is %LOGDATE%
just remember to escape any script special characters (< > | etc) using a caret (^)