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PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook

By : Prashanth Jayaram, Ram Iyer
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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)

Understanding standard redirection in PowerShell

During the process of learning to use Bash or sh, we learn to use the redirection operators, such as <, >, and >>. PowerShell works on redirection as well. However, the implementation of redirection is different in PowerShell.

Redirection in PowerShell mainly relies on streams, which are covered in a different chapter. For this recipe, we stick with the default stream, which is Success. This recipe covers different, simple redirections to help with basic administration.

Before we begin, let us understand that PowerShell is very different from Bash in terms of redirection, although it packs some minor similarities; similarities enough to make you not go away, but rather appreciate the flexibility of the object model and the uniformity of use.

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