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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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The Alias attribute

Like CmdletBinding, the Alias attribute may be placed preceding the param block. It may be used before or after CmdletBinding; the ordering of attributes does not matter.

The Alias attribute is used to optionally create aliases for a function. A function can have one or more aliases; the attribute accepts either a single value or an array of values. For example, you can create an alias gsm for the function Get-Something via the following attribute:

function Get-Something {
    [CmdletBinding()]
    [Alias('gsm')]
    param ( )
}

The body of a function may use named blocks, such as begin, process, and end, to control how code executes.