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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

Summary

Some errors in PowerShell come up again and again, and being able to spot and identify such errors can reduce the amount of time spent attempting to isolate a problem. Several common problems were introduced based on real-world bugs.

Not every bug can be attributed to a common error, and sometimes a more extensive investigation is required. PowerShell includes a debugger that you can use from either the command line or an editor to isolate bugs.

Visual Studio is a PowerShell editor that simplifies using the PowerShell debugger. It makes it easier for a developer to use line-based debugging.

This chapter brings this book to a close. PowerShell is full of rabbit holes to dive down and explore, more than is possible to include in this book.

Perhaps one of the most prominent features of PowerShell is consistency. Each command, each module, is presented consistently, and each has help immediately available.

The move to .NET Core and open source has opened interesting...