You're reading from PowerShell 7 Workshop Learn how to program with PowerShell 7 on Windows, Linux, and the Raspberry Pi

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801812986

Length 468 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Linux

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Nick Parlow

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: PowerShell Fundamentals

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to PowerShell 7 – What It Is and How to Get It FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Exploring PowerShell Cmdlets and Syntax

4. Chapter 3: The PowerShell Pipeline – How to String Cmdlets Together

5. Chapter 4: PowerShell Variables and Data Structures

6. Chapter 5: PowerShell Control Flow – Conditionals and Loops

7. Chapter 6: PowerShell and Files – Reading, Writing, and Manipulating Data

8. Chapter 7: PowerShell and the Web – HTTP, REST, and JSON

9. Part 2: Scripting and Toolmaking

10. Chapter 8: Writing Our First Script – Turning Simple Cmdlets into Reusable Code

11. Chapter 9: Don’t Repeat Yourself – Functions and Scriptblocks

12. Chapter 10: Error Handling – Oh No! It’s Gone Wrong!

13. Chapter 11: Creating Our First Module

14. Chapter 12: Securing PowerShell

15. Part 3: Using PowerShell

16. Chapter 13: Working with PowerShell 7 and Windows

17. Chapter 14: PowerShell 7 for Linux and macOS

18. Chapter 15: PowerShell 7 and the Raspberry Pi

19. Chapter 16: Working with PowerShell and .NET

20. Answers to Activities and Exercises

21. Index

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Understanding cmdlet syntax

We’ve already seen that you can pass information to cmdlets for input, or to modify the output. For instance, in the previous section, we typed the following:

Set-Alias -Name adapters -Value Get-NetAdapter

The cmdlet is called Set-Alias, but there are two bits of information after that: -Name and -Value. These are called parameters. They are denoted by the dash character (-), which tells PowerShell that the following characters up to the next space character represent an instruction, rather than a value. In each of the preceding parameters we’ve passed a string—we’ve told Set-Alias that the value of -Name is adapters, and -Value is Get-NetAdapter. Now, when we type adapters at Command Prompt, PowerShell knows to substitute it with Get-NetAdapter.

That’s great, but how do we know which parameters a cmdlet will take? Well, we’re going to go back to our friend Get-Help from Chapter 1, Introduction to PowerShell...