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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Summary

In this chapter, we saw that there is no standard way to install PowerShell and VS Code. We saw how to use package managers to install PowerShell 7 on Ubuntu and RHEL, and then used the direct download method to install on an older version of Linux: CentOS 7.

After that, we looked at how we can install VS Code on Linux, with a practical example on CentOS 7, again.

We looked at a number of ways PowerShell on Linux differs from running PowerShell on Windows, including the filesystem, capitalization, and the use of aliases.

We spent some time on an important topic: how we can remote into Linux machines using SSH. The use of Linux as a desktop is rare, and the majority of work carried out on Linux machines is over remote sessions on SSH, whether that is with PowerShell or directly into a Bash terminal.

Finally, we had a quick tour of ways of installing PowerShell and VS Code on macOS. We saw that it was very easy to both install and uninstall these applications using...