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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

Connecting remotely to the Pi

While it’s quite common to see the Raspberry Pi used as a PC in educational settings, it’s more likely that we’ll want to use it as a server of some sort, and therefore connect to it remotely, rather than set it up with its own monitor, mouse and keyboard. This is called headless mode, and it’s what we’re going to look at next.

Working with a headless Pi

To use a headless Pi, we’ll need to set it up so that we have a way of connecting it to the network and accessing it remotely. We’re going to configure a new Pi (or just rebuild the old one) to access a wireless network, and we’re going to use SSH for access, which we saw in Chapter 14, PowerShell 7 for Linux and macOS. We can set up both of these things with the Raspberry Pi Imager tool on the Pi website at https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/. Note that a lot of documentation on the internet suggests that we might want to create and edit...

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