2013-06-20

Provides methods that are used to create a pipeline of commands and invoke those commands either synchronously or asynchronously within a runspace. This class also provides access to the output streams that contain data that is generated when the commands are invoked. This class is primarily intended for host applications that programmatically use Windows PowerShell to perform tasks. This class is introduced in Windows PowerShell 2.0

 

csc /target:library/reference:.\System.Management.Automation.dll ps-2-1.cs

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using System;
using System.Management.Automation;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.IO;
[Cmdlet("Touch","File")]
    public class TouchFileCommand:PSCmdlet
    {
        private string path = null;
        [Parameter]
        public string Path
        {
            get
            {
                return path;
            }
            set
            {
                path = value;
            }
        }
        protected override void ProcessRecord()
        {
            if(File.Exists(path))
            {
                File.SetLastWriteTime(path,DateTime.Now );
            }
        }
    }