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PowerShell 7 Workshop

PowerShell 7 Workshop

By : Nick Parlow
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PowerShell 7 Workshop

PowerShell 7 Workshop

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By: Nick Parlow

Overview of this book

Discover the capabilities of PowerShell 7 for your everyday tasks with this carefully paced tutorial that will help you master this versatile programming language. The first set of chapters will show you where to find and how to install the latest version of PowerShell, providing insights into the distinctive features that set PowerShell apart from other languages. You’ll then learn essential programming concepts such as variables and control flow, progressing to their applications. As you advance, you’ll work with files and APIs, writing scripts, functions, and modules. You’ll also gain proficiency in securing your PowerShell environment before venturing into different operating systems. Enriched with detailed practical examples tailored for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Raspberry Pi, each chapter weaves real-world scenarios to ignite your imagination and cement the principles you learn. You’ll be able to reinforce your understanding through self-assessment questions and delve deeper into the principles using comprehensive reading lists. By the end of this book, you’ll have the confidence to use PowerShell for physical computing and writing scripts for Windows administration.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Part 1: PowerShell Fundamentals
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Part 2: Scripting and Toolmaking
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Part 3: Using PowerShell

Writing a script

How do we go about writing a script? Pretty much every script I write from scratch starts with writing down the steps and cmdlets I need to complete a task. Once I can complete the task with only the information in the list, and all the cmdlets work, I know I am ready. Let’s start our script with a working command. As an example, consider the following cmdlet:

Invoke-RestMethod -Uri 'https://api.weatherapi.com/v1/current.json?q=London&aqi=no' -Method GET -Headers @{"key" = "fp3eofkf3-0ef-2kdwpoepwoe03eper30r"}| ConvertTo-Html | Out-File "c:\temp\poshbook\ch8\WeatherData.html"

This cmdlet gets some weather data for my location from the API service from the Weather API, using a personal key, and writes it to an HTML file for display. Obviously, I’ve not put my real personal key in the preceding cmdlet, so it will fail with an API key error if we run that exact code. Let’s consider how we might turn...

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