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Getting Started with Powershell

You're reading from   Getting Started with Powershell Learn the fundamentals of PowerShell to build reusable scripts and functions to automate administrative tasks with Windows

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783558506
Length 180 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. First Steps FREE CHAPTER 2. Building Blocks 3. Objects and PowerShell 4. Life on the Assembly Line 5. Formatting Output 6. Scripts 7. Functions 8. Modules 9. File I/O 10. WMI and CIM 11. Web Server Administration A. Next Steps
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Putting them together

The several *-Object cmdlets that we've discussed in this chapter will be the foundation to your experience with PowerShell. Although, we only used them with Dir, Get-Service, and Get-Process, this is only because I can be sure that you can use these cmdlets on any system. The way that you use the *-Object cmdlets is the same whether you're dealing with files and folders, virtual machines, or mailboxes in Exchange. Since PowerShell gives you objects in all of these situations, these cmdlets will enable you to manipulate them using the same techniques.

Here are a couple of concrete examples of how the methods of using these cmdlets are portable between the types of objects. First, to get the largest five files in the c:\Windows folder, you would do this:

Dir c:\Windows | Sort-Object –Property Length –Descending | Select-Object –First 5

Similarly, getting the five processes that are using the most file handles would look like this:

Get-Process...
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