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function Get-FileBitness {
    [CmdletBinding(SupportsShouldProcess=$True,DefaultParameterSetName="None")]
    PARAM(
    	[Parameter(
    		HelpMessage = "Enter binary file(s) to examine",
    		Position = 0,
    		Mandatory = $true,
    		ValueFromPipeline = $true,
    		ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = $true
    	)]
    	[ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
    	[ValidateScript({Test-Path $_.FullName})]
    	[IO.FileInfo[]]
    	$Path
    )
    
    BEGIN {
        # PE Header machine offset
        [int32]$MACHINE_OFFSET = 4
        # PE Header pointer offset
        [int32]$PE_POINTER_OFFSET = 60
        # Initial byte array size
        [int32]$PE_HEADER_SIZE = 4096
    }
    
    PROCESS {
        # Create a location to place the byte data
        [byte[]]$BYTE_ARRAY = New-Object -TypeName System.Byte[] -ArgumentList @(,$PE_HEADER_SIZE)
        # Open the file for read access
        $FileStream = New-Object -TypeName System.IO.FileStream -ArgumentList ($Path, [System.IO.FileMode]::Open, [System.IO.FileAccess]::Read)
        # Read the requested byte length into the byte array
        $FileStream.Read($BYTE_ARRAY, 0, $BYTE_ARRAY.Length) | Out-Null
        #
        [int32]$PE_HEADER_ADDR = [System.BitConverter]::ToInt32($BYTE_ARRAY, $PE_POINTER_OFFSET)
        try {
    	    [int32]$machineUint = [System.BitConverter]::ToUInt16($BYTE_ARRAY, $PE_HEADER_ADDR + $MACHINE_OFFSET)
        } catch {
    	    $machineUint = 0xffff
        }
        switch ($machineUint) {
    	    0x0000 {return 'UNKNOWN'}
    	    0x0184 {return 'ALPHA'}
    	    0x01d3 {return 'AM33'}
    	    0x8664 {return 'AMD64'}
    	    0x01c0 {return 'ARM'}
    	    0x01c4 {return 'ARMNT'} # aka ARMV7
    	    0xaa64 {return 'ARM64'} # aka ARMV8
    	    0x0ebc {return 'EBC'}
    	    0x014c {return 'I386'}
    	    0x014d {return 'I860'}
    	    0x0200 {return 'IA64'}
    	    0x0268 {return 'M68K'}
    	    0x9041 {return 'M32R'}
    	    0x0266 {return 'MIPS16'}
    	    0x0366 {return 'MIPSFPU'}
    	    0x0466 {return 'MIPSFPU16'}
    	    0x01f0 {return 'POWERPC'}
    	    0x01f1 {return 'POWERPCFP'}
    	    0x01f2 {return 'POWERPCBE'}
    	    0x0162 {return 'R3000'}
    	    0x0166 {return 'R4000'}
    	    0x0168 {return 'R10000'}
    	    0x01a2 {return 'SH3'}
    	    0x01a3 {return 'SH3DSP'}
    	    0x01a6 {return 'SH4'}
    	    0x01a8 {return 'SH5'}
    	    0x0520 {return 'TRICORE'}
    	    0x01c2 {return 'THUMB'}
    	    0x0169 {return 'WCEMIPSV2'}
    	    0x0284 {return 'ALPHA64'}
    	    0xffff {return 'INVALID'}
        }
    }
    
    END {
        $FileStream.Close()
        $FileStream.Dispose()
    }
}