Monday, 5 October 2015

Know your PowerShell

PowerShell was introduced in 2007 as a scripting language for Windows administrators. It was invented by Jeffrey Snover. To PowerShell is to know the lingo of PowerShell. Start your journey here!

There are a few useful guides:

Getting Started with PowerShell by Michael Shepherd (August 2015) from Packt Publishing is a good starter guide.

Also check out the following blogs:

PowerShell Blog (part of Server and Tools blogs)

And here are a few useful commands:

get-verb               - displays list of verbs (commands)
get-verb | more    - displays verbs with pagination
get-date
get-childitem       - does a directory listing. dir is aliased to get-childitem
get-help               - gets help on a specific verb

Commands are also known as cmdlets in PowerShell lingo.

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