From the course: PowerShell: Scripting for Server Administration
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Read from text files - Server Tutorial
From the course: PowerShell: Scripting for Server Administration
Read from text files
- [Narrator] A task that we will be completing as this course progresses, is the export of all users from one Active Directory domain to a series of files. The final task will then be to use those text-based files to create the same list of users in a different domain. To import this information, we need to be able to read the text files. And the commandlet for that is Get-Content. It may be easiest to see how this commandlet works by placing it in a pipeline. Add-Content or Set-Content usually goes at the end of a pipeline because they write data that's already been processed. It makes sense then that Get-Content would be at the beginning of the pipeline so that it can retrieve data that's about to be processed. The Get-Content commandlet will open a file and view each line as a string to be processed. This makes it important that we know what to expect on each line in the file. Here's a text file that has a list of local user accounts that we'd like to create on this machine. Notice…
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