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PSUtils is a PowerShell Module containing some useful scripts to assist daily basis tasks. I will try to describe its scripts, so everyone can benefit from it (names inside parenthesis are aliases to each function):

• Add-Link (mklink): executes mklink from CMD (to create symbolic and other files links).

• Get-Clipboard (gcb): returns Clipboard content to PowerShell.

• Get-FindLocation (which): searches PATH for a given term.

• Get-Manual (gman): displays man page for a given gnuwin32 utility that comes with PSUtils.

• Get-Shelveset (unshelve): Gets a TFS Shelveset content, and apply it to another branch.

• Install-ConEmu: Install ConEmu to ..\ConEmu relative to PSUtils, and configures it to execute PowerShell with PSUitls at startup.

• Install-Sysinternals: Install Sysinternal tools to ..\sysinternals relative to PSUtils. At startup, is theses tools are installed, PSUtils will create aliases to each of them.

• Install-Vim: Install Sysinternal tools to ..\sysinternals relative to PSUtils.

• Invoke-ForeachParallel (%p): Parallel version to Foreach-Object. Credit to Tome Tanasovski.

• Invoke-TFS (tf): Finds lastest installed TFS, and executes its tf.exe utility.

• Set-Clipboard (scb): Save input to Clipboard.

• Set-Signature: Apply codesgining to input files. If certificate is not provided, the first CodeSigning certificate will be used.

• Set-VS2010 (vs2010): Loads Visual Studio 2010 environment variables.

• Set-VS2012 (vs2012): Loads Visual Studio 2012 environment variables.

• Set-VS2013 (vs2013): Loads Visual Studio 2013 environment variables.

• Set-WAIK (waik): Loads Windows Automated Installation Kit environment variables.

• Start-Elevated (sudo): executes a given executable with administrative privileges.

• Start-gVim (gvim): executes gvim.exe, trying to find where it is installed, or use it from ..\Vim relative to PSUtils.

• Start-PSUtils (psutils): Available only in ConEmu, with ConEmuHk enable. Executes PowerShell with PSUtils loaded in a new tab.

• Start-Vim (vim): executes gvim.exe, trying to find where it is installed, or use it from ..\Vim relative to PSUtils.

• Update-Path: checks for new directories configured to PATH in Registry, and apply new ones to current environment variable.

• Update-PSUtils: Selfupdate PSUtils from git repository. Requires Git client.

• Update-SymbolIndex: read a .pdb symbol file, and indexes it to existing source code on a TFS Server.

• Write-Prompt (prompt): Internal function used to customize prompt.