Open Scripts in a new tab in the PowerShell ISE using PSEdit
While at TechEd last week, PSEdit was used in one of the PowerShell sessions that I sat through. Afterwards a couple of friends asked me if I had ever heard of it and said they hadn't so I thought I would write a blog article about it to help spread the word.
PSEdit is a function that only exists in the PowerShell ISE. Type in PSEdit followed by the name of a PowerShell script and that script will be opened in a new tab in the ISE:
1psEdit .\Get-FSMORole.ps1
Try the same thing in the PowerShell console and you'll end up with an error message:
1psEdit .\Get-FSMORole.ps1
Since psEdit is a function and not a compiled cmdlet, you can take a look under the covers to see what it does behind the scenes:
1Get-Command -Name psEdit | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Definition
There's very little help for psEdit and this is even after running Update-Help
from within the
PowerShell ISE:
1help psEdit
Even though the filenames
parameter doesn't show it accepting an array []
, based on the code and a
little testing, a common separated list can be used to open multiple scripts:
1psEdit -filenames '.\Get-FSMORole.ps1', '.\Get-Top10PRocesses.ps1'
I've actually written a
previous blog article
to locate and open scripts in the PowerShell ISE that uses the same behind the scenes code as psEdit
that you may also find interesting.
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