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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)

Working with date properties

PowerShell is best learned by starting with simple cmdlets. And Get-Date is one of the simplest, yet not completely leveraged cmdlets present in PowerShell. In this recipe, we will play with dates and see how they can be used in different scenarios. As always, the possibilities with PowerShell are quite more than a book can cover. In the interest of brevity, we will look at just enough to enable you to launch yourself gracefully into the world of PowerShell automation; the rest, you should be able to handle by yourself.

Getting ready

If you followed along with the previous chapters and performed all of the exercises mentioned in them, you should be good to go. Otherwise, go to Chapter 1, Introducing...