2BASIC POWERSHELL CONCEPTS
This chapter covers four basic concepts in PowerShell: variables, data types, objects, and data structures. These concepts are fundamental to just about every common programming language, but there’s something that makes PowerShell distinctive: everything in PowerShell is an object.
This may not mean much to you now, but keep it in mind as you move through the rest of this chapter. By the end of the chapter, you should have an idea of just how significant this is.
Variables
A variable is a place to store values. You can think of a variable as a digital box. When you want to use a value multiple times, for example, you ...
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