{"id":92,"date":"2007-03-24T00:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T05:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wangxiaohu.com\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2007-03-24T00:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-24T05:24:00","slug":"let-powershell-to-summarize-your-im-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wangxiaohu.com\/blog\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Let PowerShell to summarize your IM history"},"content":{"rendered":"

(March 25, 2007) Update: <\/strong>Thanks to James Manning for the -passthru<\/font> parameter to simply the command.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Windows PowerShell<\/a>, also known as “Monad”, is a cool shell environment to replace old CMD shell under Windows. It is an object oriented shell and it allow easy manipulation of different types of objects interactively. Another advantage is the support of various data structures and formats, such as XML. Just like other good old shells, it also supports piping. The difference is that, instead of text stream, it sends objects through the pipes.<\/p>\n

I always want to find out some information about my Live Messenger<\/a> history. Now let’s see what PowerShell can do with it. In most cases, Live Messenger history is saved under “My Received Files\\<Live ID with some numbers>\\History<\/em>” in your Document<\/em> folder. Now let’s boot into PowerShell and “Set-Location<\/font>” or ”cd<\/font>” to this folder. If you type “Get-ChildItem<\/font>” or “dir<\/font>” you will see a bunch of .xml<\/font> files listed.<\/p>\n

Alright, let’s first try to find the top 10 friends with most letters<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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Get-ChildItem | Sort-Object Length -descending | Select-Object -first 10<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n