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Getting Started with Powershell

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Getting Started with Powershell

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Getting Started with PowerShell
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Next Steps
Index

Executing and calling functions


As seen in figure in the Comparing scripts and functions section, defining a function involves using the function keyword and surrounding the code you want with a scriptblock. Executing this function statement simply adds the function definition to the current PowerShell session. To subsequently call the function, you use the function name like you would a cmdlet name, and supply parameters and arguments just like you would for a cmdlet or script.

Tip

Storing the MdAndGo function in a file called MdAndGo.ps1 can be confusing because we're using the same name for the two things. You dot-source the ps1 file to load the function into the session, then you can execute this function. Dot-sourcing the file doesn't run the function. If we had written this as a script, on the other hand, we could have executed the logic of the script without dot-sourcing.

Tip

Warning!

A common mistake of new PowerShell users is to call a function using parentheses to surround the parameters...