My favorite PowerShell snippets

PowerShell-snippets.ps1

# List of usefull snipets I always reuse.

# Get all file types
$extensionList = @((Get-ChildItem -Recurse -File).Extension);
$extensionList | Select-Object -Unique

# Snippets for git support in the team
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# When someone cannot checkout the files from lfs (whatever the user does, the file remain empty with a size of 1K)
# Experienced with git lfs version: 2.9.2
# Try the standard way to get the file with the following:
git lfs fetch --all
git lfs checkout

# If this does not work, se the following sequence to clear the caches:
# ( Make sure there are no uncommitted changes. If there are some, commit the work if required before proceeding. )
git rm -r --cached . 
git reset --hard