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PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook

You're reading from   PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook Use PowerShell Core 6.x on Linux to automate complex, repetitive, and time-consuming tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789137231
Length 566 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ram Iyer Ram Iyer
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Prashanth Jayaram Prashanth Jayaram
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing PowerShell Core FREE CHAPTER 2. Preparing for Administration Using PowerShell 3. First Steps in Administration Using PowerShell 4. Passing Data through the Pipeline 5. Using Variables and Objects 6. Working with Strings 7. Flow Control Using Branches and Loops 8. Performing Calculations 9. Using Arrays and Hashtables 10. Handling Files and Directories 11. Building Scripts and Functions 12. Advanced Concepts of Functions 13. Debugging and Error Handling 14. Enterprise Administration Using PowerShell 15. PowerShell and Cloud Operations 16. Using PowerShell for SQL Database Management 17. Using PowerShell with Docker 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding custom properties to an object

PowerShell cmdlets are capable of allowing administrators to work with most tasks. However, there are some situations where the returned objects don't satisfy the administrative needs of a certain script. In such situations, we may need to create our own custom objects based on the available .NET classes, or at least, add a custom property to the object.

While a string is an object of the System.String type, the Get-Process cmdlet returns an object of type System.Diagnostics.Process, Get-ChildItem returns an object with the type System.IO.FileInfo, and a custom-created object has the object type PSCustomObject.

How to do it...

Now, let's proceed and create a custom object:

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