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Mastering PowerShell Scripting - Fourth Edition

By : Chris Dent
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Book Image

Mastering PowerShell Scripting - Fourth Edition

5 (1)
By: Chris Dent

Overview of this book

PowerShell scripts offer a convenient way to automate various tasks, but working with them can be daunting. Mastering PowerShell Scripting takes away the fear and helps you navigate through PowerShell's capabilities.This extensively revised edition includes new chapters on debugging and troubleshooting and creating GUIs (online chapter). Learn the new features of PowerShell 7.1 by working with parameters, objects, and .NET classes from within PowerShell 7.1. This comprehensive guide starts with the basics before moving on to advanced topics, including asynchronous processing, desired state configuration, using more complex scripts and filters, debugging issues, and error-handling techniques. Explore how to efficiently manage substantial amounts of data and interact with other services using PowerShell 7.1. This book will help you to make the most of PowerShell's automation features, using different methods to parse data, manipulate regular expressions, and work with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
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Index

Defining parameter sets

A parameter set in PowerShell groups different parameters together. In some cases, this is used to change the output of a command; in others, it provides a different way of supplying a piece of information.

For example, the output from the Get-Process command changes if the Module parameter or, to a lesser extent, the IncludeUserName parameter are supplied.

The Get-ChildItem command also has two parameter sets: one that accepts a Path with wildcard support and another that accepts a LiteralPath that does not support wildcards.

Parameter sets are declared using the ParameterSetName property of the Parameter attribute.

The following example has two parameter sets; each parameter set contains a single parameter:

function Get-InputObject {
    [CmdletBinding()]
    param (
        [Parameter(ParameterSetName = 'FirstSetName')]
        $Parameter1,
        [Parameter(ParameterSetName = 'SecondSetName')]
        $Parameter2...