Windows PowerShell Pocket Reference by Holmes, Lee -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Windows PowerShell Pocket Reference Preface

Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples Safari® Books Online How to Contact Us

A Guided Tour of Windows PowerShell

Introduction 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

1. PowerShell Language and Environment

Commands and Expressions Comments Help Comments Variables Booleans Strings

Literal and Expanding Strings Here Strings Escape Sequences

Numbers

Simple Assignment Administrative Numeric Constants Hexadecimal and Other Number Bases Large Numbers Imaginary and Complex Numbers

Arrays and Lists

Array Definitions Array Access Array Slicing

Hashtables (Associative Arrays)

Hashtable Definitions Hashtable Access

XML Simple Operators

Arithmetic Operators Logical Operators Binary Operators Other Operators

Comparison Operators Conditional Statements

if, elseif, and else Statements switch Statements

Looping Statements

for Statement foreach Statement while Statement do … while Statement/do … until Statement Flow Control Statements

break continue

Workflow-Specific Statements

InlineScript Parallel/Sequence foreach -parallel

Working with the .NET Framework

Static Methods Instance Methods Explicitly Implemented Interface Methods Static Properties Instance Properties Learning About Types

The Get-Member cmdlet .NET Framework documentation

Type Shortcuts Creating Instances of Types Interacting with COM Objects Extending Types

The Add-Member cmdlet Custom type extension files

Writing Scripts, Reusing Functionality

Writing Commands

Writing scripts Writing functions Writing script blocks

Running Commands

Invoking Dot-sourcing Parameters

Providing Input to Commands

Argument array Formal parameters Command behavior customizations Parameter attribute customizations Parameter validation attributes Pipeline input Cmdlet keywords in commands $MyInvocation automatic variable

Retrieving Output from Commands

Pipeline output Return statement Exit statement

Help Documentation

Managing Errors

Nonterminating Errors Terminating Errors

Formatting Output

Custom Formatting Files

Capturing Output Common Customization Points

Console Settings

Adjust your window size Make text selection easier Use hotkeys to operate the shell more efficiently

Profiles Prompts Tab Completion User Input Command Resolution

2. Regular Expression Reference 3. XPath Quick Reference 4. .NET String Formatting

String Formatting Syntax Standard Numeric Format Strings Custom Numeric Format Strings

5. .NET DateTime Formatting

Custom DateTime Format Strings

6. Selected .NET Classes and Their Uses 7. WMI Reference 8. Selected COM Objects and Their Uses 9. Selected Events and Their Uses 10. Standard PowerShell Verbs Index About the Author Colophon Copyright

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