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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 the formatting operator

Learning about strings is incomplete without formatting. The formatting operator in PowerShell helps with formatting strings the way we want them. There are several options available with the operator, some of which we will see in the How it works… section of this recipe. This helps us with several situations, such as generating an HTML report from the output of a cmdlet. You can create complex output files without having to worry about missing out tags or introducing errors when constructing these structured files.

In this recipe, we will look into a simple usage of the formatting operator. The following is the situation.

You have been hired by a bank to provide them with a series of automation solutions. The Recovery Division of the credit card department has a follow-up team that calls up defaulting customers. Given the financial situation...