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Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting (Second Edition) - Second Edition

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Published in Oct 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787126305

Pages 440 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Shell Scripting

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Brenton J.W. Blawat

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Introduction to PowerShell

2. Working with PowerShell

3. Modules and Snap-Ins

4. Working with Objects in PowerShell

5. Operators

6. Variables, Arrays, and Hashtables

7. Branching and Looping

8. Working with .NET

9. Data Parsing and Manipulation

10. Regular Expressions

11. Files, Folders, and the Registry

12. Windows Management Instrumentation

13. HTML, XML, and JSON

14. Working with REST and SOAP

15. Remoting and Remote Management

16. Testing

17. Error Handling

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Authors (1)

Brenton J.W. Blawat

Brenton Blawat has been a successful entrepreneur, strategic technical advisor, and engineer who has a passion for the procurement of technology in organizations. He is business-centric, while being technology-minded, and has had many years of experience bridging the gap between technical staff and decision makers in organizations. Brenton prides himself on his ability to effectively communicate to a diverse audience and provide strategic direction for small and large organizations alike. Throughout his career, he has worked for a multitude of Fortune 500 organizations, and specializes in delivery automation and workflow optimizations.

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