Trivial stuff, but I don’t get to use PowerShell as much as I would like to so I end up forgetting elementary things that should just be second nature to me. Case in hand, I wanted to a add a line to a bunch of text files. Here’s what I came up with – just posting it here as a reference to my future selef.<\/p>\n
foreach ($file in $(Get-ChildItem *.ovpn)) { $(Get-Content $file) + \"auth-user-pass pia.txt\" | Out-File $file -Force -Encoding ascii }<\/pre>\nFor the background behind this, I use Private Internet Access<\/a> for my VPN needs and since last month or so my ISP’s been blocking traffic to it. Private Internet Access offers a client that lets me connects to their servers via UDP or TCP. The UDP option began failing but the TCP option surprisingly worked. Of course I don’t want to use TCP as that’s slow<\/a> and so I went to Private Internet Access’s website where they give a bunch of OpenVPN config files<\/a> we can use. These are cool in the sense that some of them connect via IP (instead of server name) while others connect to well-known ports or use a well-known local port and so there’s less chance of being blocked by the ISP. In my case turned out just connecting via IP<\/a> was more than enough so it looks like the ISP isn’t blocking OpenVPN UDP ports, it’s just blocking UDP traffic to these server names.<\/p>\nAnyhow, next step was to stop the client from prompting for an username\/ password. OpenVPN has an option auth-user-pass<\/code> which lets you specify a file-name where the usrname and password are on separate lines. So all I had to do was create this file and add a line such as auth-user-pass pia.txt<\/code> to all the configuration files. That’s what the code snippet above does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trivial stuff, but I don’t get to use PowerShell as much as I would like to so I end up forgetting elementary things that should just be second nature to me. Case in hand, I wanted to a add a line to a bunch of text files. Here’s what I came up with – just … Continue reading PowerShell: Add a line to multiple files<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[196,2],"tags":[95,100,99],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}