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PowerShell 7 Workshop

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801812986
Length 468 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

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 22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exercises

The following are some exercises to help you solidify your knowledge of this chapter:

  1. How can we use PowerShell to display just the day of the week it is today?
  2. We need to get a list of CPU usage and the locations of all our running processes, and we don’t want a lot of unnecessary information. How do we do that?
  3. Now that we’ve got our list, how can we get the path names in reverse alphabetical order?
  4. There’s a lot of stuff here. How do we ensure it only lists the processes that have a CPU usage of greater than 5?
  5. What is the most efficient way to get a list of read-only files from our home drive?
  6. We need to get the size of all the files in our home directory. We just want the name and the size in bytes.
  7. We have a file that contains a list of process names, called processes.txt. we need to use it to discover information about the processes on our local machine, so we will need to find a cmdlet that can get content from...
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