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Powershell Core 6.2 Cookbook

By : Jan-Hendrik Peters
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Powershell Core 6.2 Cookbook

By: Jan-Hendrik Peters

Overview of this book

This book will follow a recipe-based approach and start off with an introduction to the fundamentals of PowerShell, and explaining how to install and run it through simple examples. Next, you will learn how to use PowerShell to access and manipulate data and how to work with different streams as well. You will also explore the object model which will help with regard to PowerShell function deployment. Going forward, you will get familiar with the pipeline in its different use cases. The next set of chapters will deal with the different ways of accessing data in PowerShell. You will also learn to automate various tasks in Windows and Linux using PowerShell Core, as well as explore Windows Server. Later, you will be introduced to Remoting in PowerShell Core and Just Enough Administration concept. The last set of chapters will help you understand the management of a private and public cloud with PowerShell Core. You will also learn how to access web services and explore the high-performance scripting methods. By the end of this book, you will gain the skills to manage complex tasks effectively along with increasing the performance of your environment.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Planning a Linux Cron Job

Linux has a scheduling service, called cron, which is used for recurring jobs. The scheduler service, crond, works with files called CronTab, to schedule tasks.

As you might imagine, this is, again, very text-based. Luckily, the PowerShell team created a demo module that is very helpful. It is called CronTab.

Getting ready

Install and start PowerShell Core.

How to do it...

Please perform the following steps:

  1. Start by discovering any existing cmdlets, as follows:
# Again - no native cmdlets
Get-Command *ScheduledTask*
  1. Again, we need to work...