Using winget,
winget list command displays the list of the applications currently installed in my computer, but it doesn't display the applications in alphabetical order of application name just like in the control panel,
Is there a way to display the installed applications in alphabetical order of application name using winget?
Note: The two images are from different machines.
Thanks.
As Demetrius mentioned in his comment, there isn't an ability to sort built into the client currently. However, in your screenshot I see you are using PowerShell. You can use PowerShell variables and commands to effectively sort the output. By chaining a few commands together, it is possible to re-create the table. This seemed to work for me -
$a=winget list;$a|select -First 3;$a|select -Skip 3|Sort-Object|select -First 9
I was trying to see if there was a parameter/option to accompany the winget command, and really wanted to just comment on the answer by Trenly; I had been using a similar piped command (just shorter), so he should still get the credit!
However, apparently, I must have a certain reputation score to even comment on his (or any other) answer... Yet, I can provide an answer without any rating whatsoever; go figure. So, the shorter version, similar to his answer, but without the unnecessary nested piping:
winget list|Sort-Object
You can check for ConvertFrom-FixedColumnTable function at here to convert the result of winget list to a table.
I created a function winget_list_OrderBy in order to make it simple:
function winget_list_OrderBy {
<#
.EXAMPLE
winget_list_OrderBy
.EXAMPLE
winget_list_OrderBy -OrderBy 'Name' -Arguments "--id=Git.Git"
#>
[CmdletBinding()]
param (
[Parameter(ValueFromPipeline)]
[string[]]
$OrderBy = 'Name', # $OrderBy can be equal to 'Name'/'Id'/'Version'/'Source' (and 'Available' if exist).
[Parameter(ValueFromPipeline)]
[string[]]
$Arguments = ''
)
# Backup the original [Console]::OutputEncoding
$encoding = [Console]::OutputEncoding
# Make PowerShell interpret winget.exe's output as UTF-8
[Console]::OutputEncoding = [System.Text.UTF8Encoding]::new()
(winget list $Arguments) -match '^(\p{L}|-)' | # filter out progress-display lines
ConvertFrom-FixedColumnTable | # parse output into objects
Sort-Object $OrderBy | # sort by the ID property (column)
Format-Table # display the objects in tabular format
# Restore the original [Console]::OutputEncoding afterwards
[Console]::OutputEncoding = $encoding
}
Usage is simple: winget_list_OrderBy -OrderBy $OrderBy -Arguments $Arguments or winget_list_OrderBy.
thoughts on this? It may need a little clean up, but I just converted the results to an object Array.
$apps = #("Microsoft Visual Studio Code", "Microsoft Visual Studio Code Insiders", "Visual Studio Community 2022")
$global:foundapps = [System.Collections.Generic.List[object]]::new()
foreach ($app in $apps) {
$Applist = winget search $app
$header = $Applist[1]
$nameposition = $header.indexof('Name')
$idPosition = $header.indexof('Id')
$versionPosition = $header.indexof('Version')
$sourceposition = $header.indexof('Source')
$name = $header.substring($nameposition, $idPosition).replace(' ', '')
$id = $header.substring($idPosition, ($versionPosition - $idPosition)).replace(' ', '')
$iVersiond = $header.substring($versionPosition, ($sourceposition - $versionPosition)).replace(' ', '')
$source = $header.substring($sourceposition, ($header.length - $sourceposition)).replace(' ', '')
$appstoadd = $Applist | select-object -skip 3
foreach ($AppToAdd in $appstoadd) {
$foundapps.Add([PSCustomObject] #{
"Name" = $AppToAdd.substring($nameposition, $idPosition).replace(' ', '')
"Version" = $AppToAdd.substring($versionPosition, ($sourceposition - $versionPosition)).replace(' ', '')
"ID" = $AppToAdd.substring($idPosition, ($versionPosition - $idPosition)).replace(' ', '')
"Source" = $AppToAdd.substring($sourceposition, ($header.length - $sourceposition)).replace(' ', '')
})
}
}
$foundapps |fl
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So i have the following code to generate the entire Windows Update History:
$Session = New-Object -ComObject "Microsoft.Update.Session"
$Searcher = $Session.CreateUpdateSearcher()
$historyCount = $Searcher.GetTotalHistoryCount()
$Searcher.QueryHistory(0, $historyCount) | Select-Object Title, Description, Date,
#{name="Operation"; expression={switch($_.operation){
1 {"Installation"}; 2 {"Uninstallation"}; 3 {"Other"}
}}}
My question is how can i search in this table for updates containing KB. So for instance i want to know if the update KB4052623 has been installed. How can i write a simple piece of code to tell me KB4052326 has been found in the output of above code? Thanks in advance.
You need to assign the array returned by QueryHistory to a variable, then loop through that array to get the objects. Probably easiest to use Regex to find the KB numbers.
This code just list the found KB numbers, but you should be able test it as needed. Also, you may want to check the Description for KB numbers as well, it may tell you that it replaces old KB numbers or other important info.
$Session = New-Object -ComObject "Microsoft.Update.Session"
$Searcher = $Session.CreateUpdateSearcher()
$historyCount = $Searcher.GetTotalHistoryCount()
$MSUpdateHistory = $Searcher.QueryHistory(0, $historyCount) | Select-Object Title, Description, Date,
#{name="Operation"; expression={switch($_.operation){
1 {"Installation"}; 2 {"Uninstallation"}; 3 {"Other"}
}}}
$MSUpdateHistory | ForEach-Object {
if ($_.Title -match '(?<KBNum>KB\d+)') {
Write-Host "Found $($Matches.KBNum)"
#$_.Description
#$_.Date
#$_.Operation
}
}
I'm using FromFile to get the image out of files, and it has the following error for the png's on the FromFile line:
Exception calling "FromFile" with "1" argument(s): "The given path's
format is not supported."
So, I'm trying to convert the bmp's to jpg, (see convert line above FromFile below) but all the examples I see (that seem usable) are saving the file. I don't want to save the file in the dir. All I need is the image format, so FromFile can use it like this example. I saw ConvertTo-Jpeg, but I don't think this is a standard powershell module, or don't see how to install it.
I saw this link, but I don't think that would leave the image in the format needed by FromFile.
This is my code:
$imageFile2 = Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Path $ImageFullBasePath -Include #("*.bmp","*.jpg","*.png") | Where-Object {$_.Name -match "$($pictureName)"} #$imageFile | Select-String -Pattern '$($pictureName)' -AllMatches
Write-Host $imageFile2
if($imageFile2.Exists)
{
if($imageFile2 -Match "png")
{
$imageFile2 | .\ConvertTo-Jpeg #I don't think this will work with FromFile below
}
$image = [System.Drawing.Image]::FromFile($imageFile2) step
}
else {
Write-Host "$($imageFile2) does not exist"
}
And then I put it in excel:
$xlsx = $result | Export-Excel -Path $outFilePath -WorksheetName $errCode -Autosize -AutoFilter -FreezeTopRow -BoldTopRow -PassThru # -ClearSheet can't ClearSheet every time or it clears previous data ###left off
$ws = $xlsx.Workbook.Worksheets[$errCode]
$ws.Dimension.Columns #number of columns
$tempRowCount = $ws.Dimension.Rows #number of rows
#only change width of 3rd column
$ws.Column(3).Width
$ws.Column(3).Width = 100
#Change all row heights
for ($row = 2 ;( $row -le $tempRowCount ); $row++)
{
#Write-Host $($ws.Dimension.Rows)
#Write-Host $($row)
$ws.Row($row).Height
$ws.Row($row).Height = 150
#place the image in spreadsheet
#https://github.com/dfinke/ImportExcel/issues/1041 https://github.com/dfinke/ImportExcel/issues/993
$drawingName = "$($row.PictureID)_Col3_$($row)" #Name_ColumnIndex_RowIndex
Write-Host $image
$picture = $ws.Drawings.AddPicture("$drawingName",$image)
$picture.SetPosition($row - 1, 0, 3 - 1, 0)
if($ws.Row($row).Height -lt $image.Height * (375/500)) {
$ws.Row($row).Height = $image.Height * (375/500)
}
if($ws.Column(3).Width -lt $image.Width * (17/120)){
$ws.Column(3).Width = $image.Width * (17/120)
}
}
Update:
I just wanted to reiterate that FromFile can't be used for a png image. So where Hey Scripting Guy saves the image like this doesn't work:
$image = [drawing.image]::FromFile($imageFile2)
I figured out that the $imageFile2 path has 2 filenames in it. It must be that two met the Get-ChildItem/Where-Object/match criteria. The images look identical, but have similar names, so will be easy to process. After I split the names, it does FromFile ok.
I want to change the loop PowerShell content from the CSV file automatically, is there someone know how to achieve the goal?
I want to run the loop PowerShell as below,I export the AD Group Members UPN with CSV file like One#contoso.com. I want to change the Userlist with the UPN automatically because there have more than 1000 members in the group and I have to change the upn from one#contoso.com to 'one#contoso.com',it’s easy to make a miss, is there has a smart way can achieve the goal,thanks.
Export-ADGroupmember UPN:
Get-ADGroupmember -identity adgroup | % { get-aduser $_.samaccountname | select userprincipalname } | export-csv upn.csv -notypeinformation
Loop PowerShell:
Loop PowerShell:
$UserList = #(
'One#contoso.com'
'Two#contoso.com'
'Three#contoso.com'
'Four#contoso.com'
'Five#contoso.com'
)
foreach ($UL_Item in $UserList)
{
$ARAGU_Params = #{
TenantName = "contoso"
HostPoolName = "contosoHostPool"
AppGroupName = "Desktop Application Group"
UserPrincipalName = $UL_Item
}
Add-RdsAppGroupUser #ARAGU_Params
}
You cant change content in your $UserList .More precisely, it is possible but affect the performance since You will need to read from the file and break it into segments. The best way is to download all users at once.You can do it like this:
$UserList=Get-ADGroupmember -identity adgroup | % { get-aduser $_.samaccountname | select userprincipalname }
foreach ($UL_Item in $UserList)
{
$ARAGU_Params = #{
TenantName = "contoso"
HostPoolName = "contosoHostPool"
AppGroupName = "Desktop Application Group"
UserPrincipalName = $UL_Item.userprincipalname
}
Add-RdsAppGroupUser #ARAGU_Params
}
I have some modifications for this script. UserID is normally a user’s first name followed by their last name.
What I need to do is to compare the proxy address & SAMAccountName attribute associated with each Username before it create.
So I mean lets say Jack Sparrow , if jsparrow already in use then script will try as jasparrow (first and second letter of firstname) and in use jasparrow as well , will be jacsparrow and so on. I want to avoid duplicate usernames.
2-I decided that it would be better to make 'fun' passwords that use the first two letters of the FirstName , day/month , first two letters of the Lastname. The end result is that users get a password like "Ja1009Sp".
Firstname,LastName,Department,Manager,MobilePhone
Jack,Sparrow,IT,jsmith,1 88 635 5254-0551
John Smith,Sparrow,Finance,jsmith,188 635 5254-0554
Script :
Import-Module ActiveDirectory
$UserList = Import-CSV -Path C:\Temp\CreateUsers.csv
$targetOU='OU=usersOU,DC=My,DC=Domain,DC=org'
$upnDomain='sec.local'
foreach($Person in $UserList){
$useritems=#{
GivenName=$Person.Firstname
Surname=$Person.LastName
Department=$Person.Department
AccountPassword=ConvertTo-SecureString -String $Person.Password -AsPlainText -force
ChangePasswordAtLogon=$false
Enabled=$true
DisplayName="$($Person.Firstname) $($Person.Lastname)"
Manager=$Person.Manager
MobilePhone=$Person.MobilePhone
Name="$($Person.Firstname) $($Person.Lastname)"
SamAccountName="$($Person.Firstname+$Person.LastName.Substring(0,1))"
UserPrincipalName="$($Person.FirstName+$Person.LastName.Substring(0,1))#$upnDomain"
Company="Contoso"
}
New-ADUser #useritems -Path $targetOU
}
Try something like this.. I don't have AD available atm. to test the Get-ADUser-query used to look for existing account so it might need some tuning.
foreach ($Person in $UserList) {
#Reset counters
$i = 1
$n = 1
do {
if($i -le $person.Firstname.Length) {
$user = "$($Person.Firstname.Substring(0,$i)+$Person.LastName)"
$i++
} else {
#All combinations in use, adding number
$user = "$($Person.Firstname.Substring(0,1)+$Person.LastName+$n)"
$n++
}
} while ((Get-ADUser -Filter "(samAccountName -eq '$user') -or (proxyaddresses -like '$user*')"))
#Result username
#$user
#$useritems = #{
#.....
#SamAccountName=$user
#UserPrincipalName="$user#$upnDomain"
#....
#}
}
If all combinations are in use including jacksparrow, it tries jsparrow1 ++ until it finds a free number.
The password can be generated using:
$Password = "{0}{1}{2}" -f $Person.Firstname.Substring(0,2), (Get-Date).ToString("ddMM"), $Person.Lastname.Substring(0,2)
I have to work with a huge number of text files. I am able to consolidate the files into one single file. But I also have the use of the file name in my work and I would like to have it before the text of the file itself in excel format, preferably the first column should contain the names of files and the columns afterwards can contain the data.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Here's the Powershell script. You might need to modify it a bit to look for specific file extensions as now it's only looking for PS1 files
[System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = New-Object System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US")
$excel = new-Object -comobject Excel.Application
$excel.visible = $false
$workBook = $excel.Workbooks.Add()
$sheet = $workBook.Sheets.Item(1)
$sheet.Name = "Files"
$sheet.Range("A1", "B1").Font.Bold = $true
$sheet.Range("A1","A2").ColumnWidth = 40
$sheet.Range("B1","B2").ColumnWidth = 100
$sheet.Cells.Item(1,1) = "Filename"
$sheet.cells.Item(1,2) = "Content"
$files = get-childitem C:\PST -recurse | where {$_.extension -eq ".ps1"}
$index = 2
foreach($file in $files)
{
$sheet.Cells.Item($index,1) = $file.FullName
$sheet.Cells.Item($index,2) = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText($file.FullName)
$index++
}
$workBook.SaveAs("C:\PST\1.xlsx")
$excel.Quit()
Note: I'm not pretending that it's perfect, you still need to polish it and refactor it, but at least it will give you direction