{"id":1290,"date":"2009-03-16T05:45:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T13:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/16\/show-cspace\/"},"modified":"2009-03-16T05:45:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T13:45:30","slug":"show-cspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/16\/show-cspace\/","title":{"rendered":"Show-CSpace"},"content":{"rendered":"

My latest Prof. PowerShell column<\/a> has a function that takes a computername as pipelined input. It then returns a custom object showing free space on drive C:\\. The point of the column was to demonstrate how to make a function behave like a cmdlet and take pipelined input so it’s not necessarily the most glamorous function I’ve ever written.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the function got mangled in formatting for the web.  This is what it should be:<\/p>\n

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Function Show-CSpace {<\/pre>\n
  Begin {}<\/pre>\n
  Process {<\/pre>\n
    $c=Get-WmiObject win32_logicaldisk -filter<\/span> \"deviceid='c:'\"<\/span> -computername $_<\/pre>\n
    $c | Select-Object @{name=\"Server\"<\/span>;Expression={$_.__SERVER}},Size,FreeSpace<\/pre>\n
  }<\/pre>\n
  End {}<\/pre>\n
}<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Download a text file with the function here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My latest Prof. PowerShell column has a function that takes a computername as pipelined input. It then returns a custom object showing free space on drive C:\\. The point of the column was to demonstrate how to make a function behave like a cmdlet and take pipelined input so it’s not necessarily the most glamorous function I’ve ever written.<\/p>\n
Anyway, the function got mangled in formatting for the web.  This is what it should be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[198,468,28,57],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-powershell","tag-function","tag-pipeline","tag-powershell","tag-scripting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}