I have a variable in Powershell
$cvm = "derp1"
my question is how do I appened date to it while assigning a new variable.
$name = $(cvm{get-date})
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Good question Vegeta,
What you are after is the + operator which will combine two string.
$cvm = "derp1"
$name = $cvm + (Get-Date)
derp102/06/2019 08:51:53
If you want to add a space, you would do $name = $cvm + " " + (Get-Date)
Different formats can be found at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.utility/get-date?view=powershell-6
Combining two strings is fine, combining an integer and a string will convert the entire lot to a string.
E.G.
$int = 1 # Int32
$string = "hello" # String
$newVar = $int + $string # String
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ssvegeta96
thank you for the quick tip. I had done some googling prior but if I'm asking this. the other questions I found where way over my head.
You can convert the date into a string of your chosen date format, and then concatenate the strings :)
$cvm = "derp1"
$name = $cvm + "-" + (get-date).ToString("d")
>> derp1-2/6/2019
"d" in this case is short date, you can choose whatever you like
