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PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook

You're reading from   PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook Use PowerShell Core 6.x on Linux to automate complex, repetitive, and time-consuming tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789137231
Length 566 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ram Iyer Ram Iyer
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Prashanth Jayaram Prashanth Jayaram
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing PowerShell Core FREE CHAPTER 2. Preparing for Administration Using PowerShell 3. First Steps in Administration Using PowerShell 4. Passing Data through the Pipeline 5. Using Variables and Objects 6. Working with Strings 7. Flow Control Using Branches and Loops 8. Performing Calculations 9. Using Arrays and Hashtables 10. Handling Files and Directories 11. Building Scripts and Functions 12. Advanced Concepts of Functions 13. Debugging and Error Handling 14. Enterprise Administration Using PowerShell 15. PowerShell and Cloud Operations 16. Using PowerShell for SQL Database Management 17. Using PowerShell with Docker 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Expanding the properties within properties

So far, from what we have seen, two things are clear to us:

  1. An object output feels richer and makes using the object easier
  2. An object can have more objects within it

We have handled the first point using the Select-Object cmdlet, wherein we picked only the object's properties that we needed, and omitted the rest. This recipe is designed to break down the second point for better understanding.

Let us step into this recipe with one thing in mind: objects can contain objects within them, which in turn can contain more objects within them. To demonstrate this, we will use the Get-Process cmdlet.

How to do it...

Let's begin with listing out the processes; we will look at all...

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