Wow! I can’t believe I have been missing this for so long. It is the answer to all my command line woes in Windows. I have only touched the surface but love it already. Today I created my profile to change the prompt and add a command for copying my FGF binaries to my current working directories:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 | # Profile PowerShell Script # Author: John Sedlak # Site: http://focusedgames.com $a = (Get-Host).UI.RawUI $a.ForegroundColor = "White" $a.WindowTitle = "WPS - Focused Games" # This function changes the prompt. function prompt{ $path = get-location $b = Get-Date -format "HH:mm" return "$b $path ?> " } # This function copies a bunch of FGF libraries to current working directories. function fgfCopy{ # These are the platforms that need to be copied $platforms = "x86","Zune","Xbox 360" # An array of the destinations for copying $destinations = "E:\Users\John Sedlak\Code\Games\GW3\trunk\Libraries\" # The source directory and the suffix. $source = "E:\Users\John Sedlak\Code\FGF\trunk\Bin\" $sourceSuffix = "\Release" # Loop through all the destinations and all the platforms # For each platform, copy some files. foreach($destination in $destinations){ write-host "Starting copy to"$destination foreach($platform in $platforms){ # Build up the source and destination paths $tempSource = $source + $platform + $sourceSuffix $tempDestination = $destination + $platform # Get a list of all DLL files that contain the word Thrust $files = get-childItem $tempSource -force | ? {$_.extension -eq ".dll"}|where {$_.name -match "Thrust"} # For each file, copy it! foreach($dll in $files){ copy-item $tempSource\$dll $tempDestination write-host "Copied"$platform\$dll } } } } |