Powershell Core 6.2 Cookbook: Leverage command-line shell scripting to effectively manage your enterprise environment

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Reading and Writing Output

Working with output and data is the most common thing you'll be doing in PowerShell. From generating data for reports, to quickly reviewing a system's status, to the bulk-insertion of values into a database table: everything has to do with data and output.

We'll cover a lot of ground in this chapter and, with simple recipes, you'll see how to access the certificate stores, the registry on a Windows machine and the filesystem on any OS. You'll also learn how to properly work with variables.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following recipes:

Working with output
Storing data
Read-only and constant variables
Variable scoping
The six streams
Stream redirection
Working with the filesystem provider
Working with the registry provider
Working with the certificate provider
Creating your own provider
NTFS alternate data streams

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Key benefits

A recipe-based guide to help you build effective administrative solutions

Gain hands-on experience with the newly added features of PowerShell Core

Manage critical business environments with professional scripting practices

Description

This book will follow a recipe-based approach and start off with an introduction to the fundamentals of PowerShell, and explaining how to install and run it through simple examples. Next, you will learn how to use PowerShell to access and manipulate data and how to work with different streams as well. You will also explore the object model which will help with regard to PowerShell function deployment. Going forward, you will get familiar with the pipeline in its different use cases. The next set of chapters will deal with the different ways of accessing data in PowerShell. You will also learn to automate various tasks in Windows and Linux using PowerShell Core, as well as explore Windows Server. Later, you will be introduced to Remoting in PowerShell Core and Just Enough Administration concept. The last set of chapters will help you understand the management of a private and public cloud with PowerShell Core. You will also learn how to access web services and explore the high-performance scripting methods. By the end of this book, you will gain the skills to manage complex tasks effectively along with increasing the performance of your environment.

What you will learn

Leverage cross-platform interaction with systems

Make use of the PowerShell recipes for frequent tasks

Get a better understanding of the inner workings of PowerShell

Understand the compatibility of built-in Windows modules with PowerShell Core

Learn best practices associated with PowerShell scripting

Avoid common pitfalls and mistakes

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