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Clear-BlugenieMemory



Clear-BlugenieMemory

SYNOPSIS

Garbage Collection in Powershell to Speed up Scripts and help lower memory consumption

SYNTAX

Clear-BlugenieMemory [-All] [[-SleepTimer] <Int32>] [[-LoopCount] <Int32>] [-Walkthrough] [-ReturnObject] [-OutUnEscapedJSON] [[-FormatView] <String>] [<CommonParameters>]

DESCRIPTION

Garbage Collection in Powershell to Speed up Scripts and help lower memory consumption.

EXAMPLES

EXAMPLE 1

Command: Clear-BlugenieMemory
Description: Remove any garbage collected in memory
Notes:

EXAMPLE 2

Command: 1..4 | ForEach-Object -Process { Get-ChildItem -Path C:\Windows -Recurse }; CM
Description: Run Get-ChildItem 5 times to start adding artifacts to memory, then remove any garbage collected in memory using the ( CM ) alias.
Notes:

EXAMPLE 3

Command: Clear-BlugenieMemory -Help
Description: Call Help Information
Notes: If Help / WalkThrough is setup as a parameter, this script will be called to setup the Dynamic Help Menu if not the normal Get-Help will be called with the -Full parameter

EXAMPLE 4

Command: Clear-BlugenieMemory -WalkThrough
Description: Call Help Information [2]
Notes: If Help / WalkThrough is setup as a parameter, this script will be called to setup the Dynamic Help Menu if not the normal Get-Help will be called with the -Full parameter

EXAMPLE 5

Command: Clear-BlugenieMemory -OutUnEscapedJSON
Description: <command_here> and Return Output as UnEscaped JSON format
Notes:  The OutUnEscapedJSON is used to beatify the JSON return and not Escape any Characters.  Normal return data is a Hash Table.

EXAMPLE 6

Command: Clear-BlugenieMemory -ReturnObject
Description: <command_here> and Return Output an Object
Notes:  The ReturnObject is used to return a PowerShell Object.  Normal return data is a Hash Table.

PARAMETERS

All

-All [<SwitchParameter>]
   Description:  Clear the Console Screen, and any variables that might be holding a lot of data
   Notes: Variables that are cleared of data are ($StackTrace, Error)
   Alias: Help
   ValidateSet:
   
   Required?                    false
   Position?                    named
   Default value                False
   Accept pipeline input?       false
   Accept wildcard characters?  false

SleepTimer

-SleepTimer <Int32>
   
   Required?                    false
   Position?                    1
   Default value                1
   Accept pipeline input?       false
   Accept wildcard characters?  false

LoopCount

-LoopCount <Int32>
   
   Required?                    false
   Position?                    2
   Default value                1
   Accept pipeline input?       false
   Accept wildcard characters?  false

Walkthrough

-Walkthrough [<SwitchParameter>]
   Description:  Start the dynamic help menu system to help walk through the current command and all of the parameters
   Notes:  
   Alias: Help
   ValidateSet:
   
   Required?                    false
   Position?                    named
   Default value                False
   Accept pipeline input?       false
   Accept wildcard characters?  false

ReturnObject

-ReturnObject [<SwitchParameter>]
   Description: Return information as an Object
   Notes: By default the data is returned as a Hash Table
   Alias: 
   ValidateSet:
   
   Required?                    false
   Position?                    named
   Default value                True
   Accept pipeline input?       false
   Accept wildcard characters?  false

OutUnEscapedJSON

-OutUnEscapedJSON [<SwitchParameter>]
   Description: Remove UnEsacped Char from the JSON information.
   Notes: This will beautify json and clean up the formatting.
   Alias: 
   ValidateSet:
   
   Required?                    false
   Position?                    named
   Default value                False
   Accept pipeline input?       false
   Accept wildcard characters?  false

FormatView

-FormatView <String>
   
   Required?                    false
   Position?                    3
   Default value                None
   Accept pipeline input?       false
   Accept wildcard characters?  false

CommonParameters

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This cmdlet supports the common parameters: -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -InformationAction, -InformationVariable, -OutVariable, -OutBuffer, -PipelineVariable, -Verbose, -WarningAction, and -WarningVariable. For more information, see .

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