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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

Index

Symbols

$Error variable 694, 695

-and operator 109

-as operator 116

*-Csv commands 226, 227

-isnot operator 117

-is operator 117

-join operator 125

.NET Regex type 262, 264

-not (or !) operator 110

-or operator 109

-replace operator 106, 107

-Skip command

using 659

-split operator 107, 108

-xor operator 109

A

Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) 225, 634

searching 641, 642, 643

using 638, 639, 640

visualizing 640, 641

acceptance testing

performing, considerations 650

access 286

Access Control Entries (ACEs) 287

adding 292

filesystem rights 292, 293

registry rights 293, 294

removing 290, 291

access control entry (ACE)

adding 326, 327

Access Control Lists (ACLs) 286

numeric values 294, 295

access mask 290

access modifier 62

Action parameter 437, 438, 439

Adapted Type System (ATS) 60

add and assign operator (+=) 98

addition operators 94

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