GenXdev Powershell Modules
A comprehensive PowerShell productivity suite for power users and developers, integrating AI, browser automation, media management, database tools, file system utilities, and Windows system control into a unified command-line workflow.
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* Simple but agile utility for renaming text throughout a project directory,
including file- and directory- names: Rename-InProject -> rip
* Pretty good wrapper for robocopy, Microsoft's robuust file copy utility: Start-RoboCopy -> rc, xc
* Folder synchronization
* Support for extra long pathnames > 256 characters
* Restartable mode backups
* Support for copying and fixing security settings
* Advanced file attribute features
* Advanced symbolic link and junction support
* Monitor mode (restart copying after change threshold)
* Optimization features for LargeFiles, multithreaded copying and
network compression
* Recovery mode (copy from failing disks)
* Find files with Find-Item -> l
* Fast multi-threaded search: utilizes parallel and asynchronous
IO processing with configurable maximum degree of parallelism
(default based on CPU cores) for efficient file and directory scanning.
* Advanced Pattern Matching: Supports wildcards (*, ?), recursive patterns
like **, and complex path structures for precise file and directory queries.
**/filename will only recurse until filename is matched. multiple of these
patterns are allowed, as long as the are preceeded with a filename or
directoryname to match.
This pattern parser has the power of Resolve-Path but has recursion
features, and does only support * and ? as wildcards,
preventing bugs with paths with [ ] brackets in them, eliminating
the need for -LiteralPath parameter, while maintaining integrity
for paths sections without wildcards, unlike a wildcard match on the
whole full path.
* Enhanced Content Searching: Comprehensive Select-String integration
with regular expression patterns within file contents using the
-Content parameter.
* Large File Optimization: Handles extremely large files with smart
overlapping buffers and minimal heap allocation
* Multiple Match Options: Find all matches per line (-AllMatches) or
just the first match per file (-List)
* Case Sensitivity Control: Case-sensitive matching (-CaseSensitive)
with culture-specific options (-Culture)
* Context Capture: Show lines before and after matches (-Context) for
better understanding
* Inverse Matching: Find files that don't contain the pattern (-NotMatch)
* Output Formats: Raw string output (-Raw), quiet boolean response (-Quiet),
or full MatchInfo objects
* Pattern Types: Regular expressions (default) or simple literal string
matching (-SimpleMatch)
* Encoding Support: Specify file encoding (-Encoding) for accurate text
processing
* Path Type Flexibility: Handles relative, absolute, UNC, rooted paths, and
NTFS alternate data streams (ADS) with optional content search in streams.
* Multi-Drive Support: Searches across all drives with -AllDrives or specific
drives via -SearchDrives, including optical disks if specified.
* Directory and File Filtering: Options to search directories only (-Directory),
both files and directories (-FilesAndDirectories), or files with content matching.
* Exclusion and Limits: Exclude patterns with -Exclude, set max recursion depth
-MaxRecursionDepth), file size limits (-MaxFileSize, -MinFileSize), and modified
date filters (-ModifiedAfter, -ModifiedBefore).
* Output Customization: Supports PassThru for FileInfo/DirectoryInfo objects,
relative paths, hyperlinks in attended mode, or plain paths in unattended mode
(use -NoLinks in case of mishaps to enforce unattended mode).
* Performance Optimizations: Skips non-text files by default for content search
(override with -IncludeNonTextFileMatching), handles long paths (>260 chars),
and follows symlinks/junctions.
* Safety Features: Timeout support (-TimeoutSeconds), ignores inaccessible items,
skips system attributes by default, and prevents infinite loops with visited node tracking.
* Easily change directories with Set-FoundLocation -> lcd
* Find directories by name/wildcard
* Supports most of Find-Items parameters, like searching in file contents to match
the directory to change location too
* Has autocompletion, just type the first letters and press Tab or CTRL-SPACE
* Delete complete directory contents with Remove-AllItems -> sdel
* Optionally delete the root folder as well
* Move files and directories with Move-ItemWithTracking
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Large Language Model (LLM) API helpers
- Perform AI operations through OpenAI-compatible chat
completion endpoints with
Invoke-LLMQuery->llm - Expose PowerShell cmdlets as tool functions to LLM models with user-controlled execution
- Interactive text chat sessions with
New-LLMTextChat->llmchat - AI-powered command suggestions with
Invoke-AIPowershellCommand->hint - Secure execution model with mandatory user confirmation for system-modifying operations
- Perform AI operations through OpenAI-compatible chat
completion endpoints with
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Audio and Speech Processing
- Transcribe audio/video files using
Whisper AImodel withStart-AudioTranscription->transcribefile - Interactive audio chat sessions with
New-LLMAudioChat->llmaudiochat - Real-time audio transcription with
Start-AudioTranscription->transcribe - Generate subtitle files for media content using
Save-Transcriptions - Record and process spoken audio with default input devices
- Transcribe audio/video files using
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Text Processing and Enhancement
- Add contextual emoticons with:
Add-EmoticonsToText->emojif - Translate text between languages with:
Get-TextTranslation->translate - AI-powered text transformation with:
Invoke-LLMTextTransformation->spellcheck - Extract string lists and evaluate statements with:
Invoke-LLMStringListEvaluation->getlistInvoke-LLMBooleanEvaluation->equalstrue
- Add contextual emoticons with:
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AI-Powered Code Refactoring
- Create and manage refactoring tasks with
New-RefactorandUpdate-Refactor - Use LLM-based selection to identify files needing refactoring
- Continue refactoring sessions with
Start-NextRefactor - Prioritize refactoring tasks for optimal workflow
- Manage all refactors with
Update-Refactor - Generate detailed refactoring reports with
Get-RefactorReport
- Create and manage refactoring tasks with
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Documentation Management
- Track features, ideas, issues, and todos in README files
- Add timestamped entries with priorities for issues, ideas, features, todoos and release notes
- Merge release notes into module definition
- View and manage documentation sections with dedicated cmdlets
- Generate and maintain module documentation automatically with support for AI translations
* use, 'PS> Ask "anything"' to query any of the popular LLM's,
or all with 'PS> Ask "anything" All', but hands of the keyboard + mouse,
while it is doing it's magic.
* search "any topic" on any of the popular searchengines
using the 'q' cmdlet
* query multiple searchengines and content-providers at once
with a single query using the 'qq' cmdlet
* query text from a variety of api providers, all at once with
a single query using the 'qqq' cmdlet
* cool way of viewing and controlling youtube with 'qvideos' cmdlet
In your PowerShell profile script,
you can set a global variable named DefaultSecondaryMonitor.
This allows you to setup your prefered webbrowser launch monitor.
e.g.
# Disable default placement of browser window
Set-Variable -Name DefaultSecondaryMonitor -Value -1 -Scope Global
# Place browser windows by default on 3th monitor (0 = Primary monitor, 1 = first, 2 = second, etc)
Set-Variable -Name DefaultSecondaryMonitor -Value 3 -Scope Global
* PlayWright browser control
* launching of default browser, Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome or Firefox
* launching of webbrowser with full control of window positioning
* launching of webbrowser with a large set of options
* Allow resizing/repositioning/closing of Windows
* Get-Window will return a windows helper that allows you to manipulate the window
* Read/write access to Windows special folder locations