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Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting (Second Edition)

You're reading from   Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting (Second Edition) One-stop guide to automating administrative tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787126305
Length 440 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Chris Dent Chris Dent
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to PowerShell FREE CHAPTER 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

Working with Objects in PowerShell

Everything we do in PowerShell revolves around working with objects. Objects, in PowerShell, may have properties or methods (or both).

It is difficult to describe an object without resorting to: an object is a representation of a thing or item of data. We might use an analogy to attempt to give meaning to the term.

This book is an object.

The book has properties which describe physical characteristics, such as the number of pages, the weight, or size. It has metadata (information about data) properties that describe the author, the publisher, the table of contents, and so on.

The book might also have methods. A method affects the change on the state of an object. For example, there might be methods to open or close the book or methods to jump to different chapters. A method might also convert an object into a different form. For example, there...

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