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PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook

By : Prashanth Jayaram, Ram Iyer
Book Image

PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook

By: Prashanth Jayaram, Ram Iyer

Overview of this book

PowerShell Core, the open source, cross-platform that is based on the open source, cross-platform .NET Core, is not a shell that came out by accident; it was intentionally created to be versatile and easy to learn at the same time. PowerShell Core enables automation on systems ranging from the Raspberry Pi to the cloud. PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook uses simple, real-world examples that teach you how to use PowerShell to effectively administer your environment. As you make your way through the book, you will cover interesting recipes on how PowerShell Core can be used to quickly automate complex, repetitive, and time-consuming tasks. In the concluding chapters, you will learn how to develop scripts to automate tasks that involve systems and enterprise management. By the end of this book, you will have learned about the automation capabilities of PowerShell Core, including remote management using OpenSSH, cross-platform enterprise management, working with Docker containers, and managing SQL databases.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

Using breakpoints

Breakpoints are crucial to debugging. They help us halt the execution of the script at a desired point and then step through the process slowly. Breakpoints can be created in PowerShell in two ways: using the breakpoint controls in a visual editor (such as Visual Studio Code) or using cmdlets.

Set a breakpoint at line 17 in the script that you used in the previous recipe, Writing debug output.

Perform this action on Visual Studio Code as well as the Vim-and-PowerShell-terminal combo.

How to do it...

This process is very simple in Visual Studio Code. All you have to do is open the file in question, hover your mouse around the left of the line number until a red dot appears, and click it to turn the red dot...