ninmonkey / Fixing PS1 files utf8 encoded files with no BOM mark and Japanese culture.md

Last active August 16, 2026 19:07

Claude and Powershell 5 - Fixing PS1 files with Japanese and no BOM mark

I found these CLAUDE.md examples that help mitigate when claude or external tools are executed ie: Cases where you can't just modify your profile

The problem is powerh

Traditional fix for current user

In the file $Profile.CurrentUserAllHosts add

ninmonkey / Css Pwsh Web Scraping Example - Using CSS Selector Queries.ps1

Last active July 28, 2026 16:16

Web Scraping Example - Using CSS Selector Queries.js

	#requires -Modules PSParseHTML
	<#
	.link
	javascript answer: https://gist.github.com/ninmonkey/b59e33cec6765a2c782edaf5c4807b17
	#>
	Import-Module PSParseHTML

	$url = 'https://tavex.pl/zloto/zlote-sztabki/page/1?filter%5Bweight%5D%5B0%5D=1&meta%5B0%5D=tax-gold%3Azlote-sztabki&sorting=recommended'

	$html ??= Invoke-WebRequest -url $Url -UseBasicParsing

ninmonkey / EditFunc-Definition.ps1

Created July 10, 2026 16:35

EditFunc - Jump to profile functions in Vs Code.ps1

	function EditFunc {
	<#
	.SYNOPSIS
	Finds where a function is defined, opens it in vs code -- and jumps to the line number it starts on
	.example
	gcm prompt \| EditFunc
	#>
	[CmdletBinding()]
	param(
	[Parameter(ValueFromPipeline)]

ninmonkey / PwshExponents.md

Last active June 5, 2026 19:22

Powershell sugar for exponents

function Pow { param( $base, $pow ) [Math]::Pow( $base, $pow ) }
filter  fPow { param( $Pow ) [Math]::Pow( $_, $pow ) }
filter  IPow { param( $Base ) [Math]::Pow( $base, $_ ) }
function Csv { $input | Join-String -sep ', ' }

3 Different interfaces

Pow 2 7

ninmonkey / Simple-EscapeControlChar.ps1

Created October 12, 2025 20:50

Tiny Escape Control Char Pwsh7

	filter EscapeCC {
	($_)?.EnumerateRunes() \| % {
	($_.Value -le 32) ? [Text.Rune]( $_.Value + 0x2400 ) : $_
	} \| Join-String
	}

	"sdf `a sdjf hi world`t`n ${fg:#feaa99} more stuff `u{0} `r`n blah" \| escapeCC

	# outputs: sdf␠␇␠sdjf␠hi␠world␉␊␠␛[38;2;254;170;153m␠more␠stuff␠␀␠␍␊␠blah

ninmonkey / Combine-Table.AddRows.pq

Created July 19, 2025 21:22

Merge multiple `Table.AddRows` and schema transforms into fewer steps

	let
	startDate = DateTime.Date( DateTime.LocalNow() ),

	endingOffset = 1000, // in days
	endingOffsetDate = Date.AddDays( startDate, endingOffset ),

	allDays = List.Transform(
	{ Number.From(startDate)..Number.From(endingOffsetDate) },
	each { Date.From( _ ) }
	),

ninmonkey / Using Powershell New or Assignment.md

Last active May 17, 2025 17:46

Testing `type = @( $data )` and `[type]::new( $data )`

Explicitly calling `::new()`

using namespace System.Collections.Generic
$example = 9, 4, 3

[List[int]]::new( [int[]]$example )

I had to type it as an [int[]]

ninmonkey / BasicTable.html

Last active May 16, 2025 19:04

Focing Html with 3 columns to `<table>` to share column widths

	<html><body>
	<table class="cols-3">
	<tr>
	<th>Company</th>
	<th>Contact</th>
	<th>Country</th>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>Alfreds Futterkiste</td>
	<td>Maria Anders</td>

ninmonkey / Saving-Excel-Workbook-As-Base64-Round-Trip.pq

Last active April 25, 2025 17:14

Saving-Excel-Workbook-As-Base64-Round-Trip.pq

	let
	Path_Xlsx = "c:\data\workbook.xlsx",
	Summary = [
	// [1] using "enter-data" saves a table as json like this
	b64_str = "i45WSkosUoqNBQA=",
	bytes = Binary.FromText( b64_str, BinaryEncoding.Base64),
	bytes_decompressed = Binary.Decompress( bytes, Compression.Deflate),
	final_json_str = Text.FromBinary( bytes_decompressed, TextEncoding.Utf8 ),

	// [2] converting some binary file to base64

ninmonkey / PwshClass▸Using▸Text.Json.ps1

Last active April 20, 2025 21:06

AutoJson.Basic-Text.Json.md

	#Requires -Version 7
	using namespace System.Collections.Generic
	using namespace System.Text
	using namespace System.Text.Json
	using namespace System.Text.Json.Serialization
	using namespace System.Linq

	$assembly = Add-type -AssemblyName System.Text.Json -PassThru -ea 'stop'

	<#

Jake Bolton ninmonkey

Traditional fix for current user

Explicitly calling ::new()

Explicitly calling `::new()`