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Powershell Core 6.2 Cookbook

By : Jan-Hendrik Peters
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Powershell Core 6.2 Cookbook

By: Jan-Hendrik Peters

Overview of this book

This book will follow a recipe-based approach and start off with an introduction to the fundamentals of PowerShell, and explaining how to install and run it through simple examples. Next, you will learn how to use PowerShell to access and manipulate data and how to work with different streams as well. You will also explore the object model which will help with regard to PowerShell function deployment. Going forward, you will get familiar with the pipeline in its different use cases. The next set of chapters will deal with the different ways of accessing data in PowerShell. You will also learn to automate various tasks in Windows and Linux using PowerShell Core, as well as explore Windows Server. Later, you will be introduced to Remoting in PowerShell Core and Just Enough Administration concept. The last set of chapters will help you understand the management of a private and public cloud with PowerShell Core. You will also learn how to access web services and explore the high-performance scripting methods. By the end of this book, you will gain the skills to manage complex tasks effectively along with increasing the performance of your environment.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Exploring object properties

You know by now that everything we do in PowerShell will eventually generate objects. But how can you make use of this behavior? In the following recipe, we will thoroughly examine objects with the Get-Member cmdlet. Along with Get-Command and Get-Help, Get-Member is going to be the most important cmdlet in your toolkit.

Getting ready

Install and start PowerShell Core.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps:

  1. Instantiate a new object and store it in a variable:
 $folder = Get-Item -Path .
  1. To find out what the object can offer, we can...