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Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting (Second Edition) - Second Edition

By : Brenton J.W. Blawat
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Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting (Second Edition) - Second Edition

By: Brenton J.W. Blawat

Overview of this book

PowerShell scripts offer a handy way to automate various chores. Working with these scripts effectively can be a difficult task. This comprehensive guide starts from scratch and covers advanced-level topics to make you a PowerShell expert. The first module, PowerShell Fundamentals, begins with new features, installing PowerShell on Linux, working with parameters and objects, and also how you can work with .NET classes from within PowerShell. In the next module, you’ll see how to efficiently manage large amounts of data and interact with other services using PowerShell. You’ll be able to make the most of PowerShell’s powerful automation feature, where you will have different methods to parse and manipulate data, regular expressions, and WMI. After automation, you will enter the Extending PowerShell module, which covers topics such as asynchronous processing and, creating modules. The final step is to secure your PowerShell, so you will land in the last module, Securing and Debugging PowerShell, which covers PowerShell execution policies, error handling techniques, and testing. By the end of the book, you will be an expert in using the PowerShell language.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Members


At the beginning of this chapter, the idea of properties and methods was introduced. These are part of a set of items collectively known as members. These are with which we interact with an object. A few of the more frequently used members are NoteProperty, ScriptProperty, ScriptMethod, and Event.

Note

What are the member types? The list of possible member types can be viewed on MSDN, which includes a short description of each member type: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.management.automation.psmembertypes(v=vs.85).aspx

This chapter focuses on the different property members: Property, NoteProperty, and ScriptProperty. They are most relevant to the commands in this chapter.

The Get-Member command

The Get-Member command is used to view the different members of an object. For example, it can be used to list all of the members of a process object (returned by Get-Process):

Get-Process -Id $PID | Get-Member

Get-Member offers filters using its parameters (MemberType, Static, and...