Adding leading zero with PowerShell Format Operator 

I often find myself in situations when I want to PSRemote multiple servers with server names in such a series that has same prefix server names and suffixed by a 2 digit number like-

sameprefix05
sameprefix06
sameprefix07
sameprefix08
sameprefix09
sameprefix10
sameprefix11
sameprefix12
sameprefix13
sameprefix14
sameprefix15

and to avoid saving the server names in a file and directly PSRemote them, I do something like in the below screenshot to generate the series

This is smart, but that doesn’t work because the single digit numbers don’t comply the server name nomenclature in the above example, which should be like 05 instead of 5

So I was wondering, there has to be a better way.

To our rescue PowerShell provides -f format operator ( PowerShell Format Operator ) which could be used to make this work.

This small trick helps me a lot in day-to-day operations and hopefully, will help you as well. You can find more such PowerShell Tips here.

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