Category: Scripting

How to prompt for input and use that input as a variable: $User = Read-Host -Prompt ‘Username’ How to SAY something, similar to the ECHO command when writing

This is an old trick you can use to quickly create ANY text file (.txt, .bat, .xml, etc..) from a command line.  This can be very useful if

If you want to quickly join an ESX host to a Windows domain, you can use putty or plink and SSH to the host and run the following

So, your trying to automate some tasks and leveraging PUTTY (PLink) but cant bet past the “host key not cached” message your presented with the very first time