No system is an island - Using Windows And Tech Step By Step

Windows 7 comes bundled with the cool PowerShell.

It is better than the regular command prompt and provides greater degree of control and automation for system admins.

Most of the work done in Powershell is through cmdlets (small built-in commands which access required objects and modify them).

Here I will show you how to open many files in one go using a single Powershell command.

For this example,there are 3 text files named a1.txt,a2.txt,a3.txt created in the folder D:\texts which we will open all at once using the command.

Launch Powershell by typing powershell in the Start menu search bar.

This will bring up a blue colored screen which is Powershell.

Type the following : Invoke-Item d:\texts\*.txt





What this does is it will open all files with a .txt extension contained in the D:\texts folder (here for illustration purposes they are : a1.txt,a2.txt and a3.txt).



Say you are working with a lot of documents and need to open them all at once to keep track,this is where the above PowerShell feature will shine and help in saving time.

Will post more on PowerShell uses in coming posts.

Peace.