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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

Running PowerShell on Linux

Mostly, PowerShell works exactly the same on Linux as it does on Windows, but obviously, there are some differences between the two underlying operating systems that we need to be aware of and subsequently understand how PowerShell handles them.

Case sensitivity is the obvious one; while get-content works as well as Get-Content on Linux, get-content ./myfile.txt doesn’t work if the file is called MyFile.txt; see the following screenshot:

Figure 14.8 – The importance of capitalization

Figure 14.8 – The importance of capitalization

As you can see, if the capitalization of the path or filename is incorrect, then PowerShell can’t find the file. The best way I have found to compensate for this is to use tab completion as much as possible, as tab completion ignores capitalization, so typing myfi and pressing Tab will find a file called MyFile.txt.

The filesystems are different, also. Linux doesn’t use letters to distinguish drives and uses forward...

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