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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Installing PowerShell 7

Somewhat perversely, I find that installing PowerShell on Linux is probably easier than installing it on Windows, despite PowerShell being developed for Windows. Microsoft publishes good scripts that we can use for the supported versions of Linux; note, though, that there are very few supported flavors: RHEL, Ubuntu, Alpine, and Debian.

This doesn’t mean we can’t install PowerShell on other versions, only that Microsoft doesn’t provide any support for us. Microsoft only supports specific recent versions as well. Because of the rate at which both operating systems change, it’s worth making sure that our versions of PowerShell and Linux are on the supportability matrix; otherwise, we may get unexpected results, as we will see when we look at installing on CentOS.

Let’s start with Ubuntu, which I’ve got running in WSL on my Windows 10 client.