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This portable reference to Windows PowerShell summarizes both the command shell and scripting language, and provides a concise reference to the major tasks that make PowerShell so successful. Written by Microsoft PowerShell team member Lee Holmes, and excerpted from his Windows PowerShell Cookbook, Windows PowerShell Pocket Reference offers up-to-date coverage of PowerShell's 1.0 release. It's an ideal on-the-job tool for Windows administrators who don't have time to plow through huge books or search online.
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Table of Contents
  1. Chapter 1 A Whirlwind Tour of Windows PowerShell

    1. Introduction

    2. An Interactive Shell

    3. Structured Commands (Cmdlets)

    4. Deep Integration of Objects

    5. Administrators As First-Class Users

    6. Composable Commands

    7. Techniques to Protect You from Yourself

    8. Common Discovery Commands

    9. Ubiquitous Scripting

    10. Ad-Hoc Development

    11. Bridging Technologies

    12. Namespace Navigation Through Providers

    13. Much, Much More

  2. Chapter 2 PowerShell Language and Environment

    1. Commands and Expressions

    2. Comments

    3. Variables

    4. Booleans

    5. Strings

    6. Numbers

    7. Arrays and Lists

    8. Hashtables (Associative Arrays)

    9. XML

    10. Simple Operators

    11. Comparison Operators

    12. Conditional Statements

    13. Looping Statements

    14. Working with the .NET Framework

    15. Writing Scripts, Reusing Functionality

    16. Managing Errors

    17. Formatting Output

    18. Capturing Output

    19. Tracing and Debugging

    20. Common Customization Points

  3. Chapter 3 Regular Expression Reference

  4. Chapter 4 PowerShell Automatic Variables

  5. Chapter 5 Standard PowerShell Verbs

  6. Chapter 6 Selected .NET Classes and Their Uses

  7. Chapter 7 WMI Reference

  8. Chapter 8 Selected COM Objects and Their Uses

  9. Chapter 9 .NET String Formatting

    1. String Formatting Syntax

    2. Standard Numeric Format Strings

    3. Custom Numeric Format Strings

  10. Chapter 10 .NET DateTime Formatting

    1. Custom DateTime Format Strings

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    Product Details
    Title:
    Windows Powershell Pocket Reference
    By:
    Lee Holmes
    Publisher:
    O'Reilly Media
    Formats:
    • Print
    • Ebook
    • Safari Books Online
    Print Release:
    May 2008
    Ebook Release:
    February 2009
    Pages:
    176
    Print ISBN:
    978-0-596-52178-3
    | ISBN 10:
    0-596-52178-2
    Ebook ISBN:
    978-0-596-10314-9
    | ISBN 10:
    0-596-10314-X
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    About the Author
    1. Lee Holmes

      Lee Holmes is a developer on the Microsoft Windows PowerShell team and has been an authoritative source of information about PowerShell since its earliest betas. His vast experience with Windows PowerShell lets him integrate both the "how" and the "why" into discussions. Lee's integration with the PowerShell and administration community (via newsgroups, mailing lists, and blogs) gives him a great deal of insight into the problems faced by all levels of administrators and PowerShell users alike.

      View Lee Holmes's full profile page.

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