Windows Powershell Pocket Reference.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holmes, Lee.

Series:

Pocket Reference (o'Reilly)

Pocket reference Windows PowerShell pocket reference

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microsoft Windows (Computer file).

Operating systems (Computers)--Programming.

Scripting languages (Computer science).

Systems programming (Computer science).

Operating systems (Computers).

Windows PowerShell (Computer program language).

Local Subjects:

Microsoft Windows (Computer file).

Operating systems (Computers)--Programming.

Scripting languages (Computer science).

Systems programming (Computer science).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Sebastopol : O'Reilly Media, 2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This portable reference to Windows PowerShell summarizes both the command shell and scripting language, and provides a concise reference to the major tasks that make PowerShell so successful. It's an ideal on-the-job tool for Windows administrators who don't have time to plow through huge books or search online. Written by Microsoft PowerShell team member Lee Holmes, and excerpted from his Windows PowerShell Cookbook, Windows PowerShell Pocket Reference offers up-to-date coverage of PowerShell's 1.0 release. You'll find information on .NET classes and legacy mana

Contents:

Windows PowerShell Pocket Reference; Comments and Questions; Safari® Books Online; 1. A Whirlwind Tour of Windows PowerShell; An Interactive Shell; Structured Commands (Cmdlets); Deep Integration of Objects; Administrators As First-Class Users; Composable Commands; Techniques to Protect You from Yourself; Common Discovery Commands; Ubiquitous Scripting; Ad-Hoc Development; Bridging Technologies; Namespace Navigation Through Providers; Much, Much More; 2. PowerShell Language and Environment; Comments; Variables; Booleans; Strings; Here Strings; Escape Sequences; Numbers

Administrative Numeric ConstantsHexadecimal and Other Number Bases; Arrays and Lists; Array Access; Array Slicing; Hashtables (Associative Arrays); Hashtable Access; XML; Simple Operators; Logical Operators; Binary Operators; Other Operators; Comparison Operators; Conditional Statements; switch Statements; Looping Statements; foreach Statement; while Statement; do ... while Statement/do ... until Statement; Flow Control Statements; continue; Working with the .NET Framework; Instance Methods; Static Properties; Instance Properties; Learning About Types; .NET Framework documentation; Type Shortcuts

Creating Instances of TypesInteracting with COM Objects; Extending Types; Custom type extension files; Writing Scripts, Reusing Functionality; Running Scripts; Dot-sourcing; Providing Input to Scripts; Formal parameters; Pipeline input; Cmdlet keywords in scripts; MyInvocation automatic variable; Retrieving Output from Scripts; Return statement; Exit statement; Functions; Script Blocks; Managing Errors; Terminating Errors; Formatting Output; Capturing Output; Tracing and Debugging; The Trace-Command Cmdlet; The Verbose Cmdlet Output; Common Customization Points; Make text selection easier

Use hotkeys to operate the shell more efficientlyProfiles; Prompts; Tab Completion; 3. Regular Expression Reference; 4. PowerShell Automatic Variables; 5. Standard PowerShell Verbs; 6. Selected .NET Classes and Their Uses; 7. WMI Reference; 8. Selected COM Objects and Their Uses; 9. .NET String Formatting; Standard Numeric Format Strings; Custom Numeric Format Strings; 10. .NET DateTime Formatting

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781306817172

130681717X

9780596153274

0596153279

9780596551841

0596551843

OCLC:

609841204