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Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting - Third Edition

By : Chris Dent
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Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting - Third Edition

By: Chris Dent

Overview of this book

PowerShell scripts offer a handy way to automate various chores, however working effectively with these scripts can be a difficult task. This comprehensive guide starts with the fundamentals before moving on to advanced-level topics to help you become a PowerShell Core 6.0 expert. The first module, PowerShell Core 6.0 Fundamentals, begins with the new features of PowerShell Core 6.0, installing it on Linux, and working with parameters, objects and .NET classes from within PowerShell Core 6.0. As you make your way through the chapters, you'll see how to efficiently manage large amounts of data and interact with other services using PowerShell Core 6.0. You'll be able to make the most of PowerShell Core 6.0's powerful automation feature, where you will have different methods available to parse data and manipulate regular expressions and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). After having explored automation, you will enter the extending PowerShell Core 6.0 module, covering asynchronous processing and desired state configuration. In the last module, you will learn to extend PowerShell Core 6.0 using advanced scripts and filters, and also debug issues along with working on error handling techniques. By the end of this book, you will be an expert in scripting with PowerShell Core 6.0.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Exploring PowerShell Fundamentals
6
Section 2: Working with Data
16
Section 3: Automating with PowerShell
19
Section 4: Extending PowerShell

Binary operators

Binary operators are used to perform bitwise operations in PowerShell. That is, operations based around the bits that make up a numeric value. Each operator returns the numeric result of a binary operation.

The available operators are:

  • Binary and: -band
  • Binary or: -bor
  • Binary exclusive or: -bxor
  • Binary not: -bnot

Binary and

The result of -band is a number where each of the bits in both the value on the left and the value on the right is set.

In the following example, the result is 2:

11 -band 6 

This operation can be shown in a table:

Bit value

8

4

2

1

Left-hand side

11

1

0

1

1

Right-hand side

6

0

1

1

0

-band

2

0

0

1

0

The result is a number where...