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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)

Mastering the Pipeline

The pipeline plays a vital role in almost every PowerShell script. By learning the most important pipeline cmdlets, you will start to master the pipeline.

After the usual pipeline processing cmdlets, we will have a look at more advanced topics, such as enabling pipeline input for your own cmdlets, as well as designing scripts with performance in mind.

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • What is a pipeline?
  • Sorting data efficiently
  • Selecting subsets of data
  • Grouping large data sets
  • Filtering data
  • Processing data
  • Enabling pipeline input
  • High-performance pipelines