PowerShell Pocket Reference, 3rd Edition

Table of contents

1. A Guided Tour of 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
   14. Conventions Used in This Book
   15. Using Code Examples
   16. O’Reilly Online Learning
   17. How to Contact Us
2. 1. PowerShell Language and Environment
   1. Commands and Expressions
   2. Comments
   3. Help Comments
   4. Variables
   5. Booleans
   6. Strings
      1. Literal and Expanding Strings
      2. Here Strings
      3. Escape Sequences
   7. Numbers
      1. Simple Assignment
      2. Administrative Numeric Constants
      3. Hexadecimal and Other Number Bases
      4. Large Numbers
      5. Imaginary and Complex Numbers
   8. Arrays and Lists
      1. Array Definitions
      2. Array Access
      3. Array Slicing
   9. Hashtables (Associative Arrays)
      1. Hashtable Definitions
      2. Hashtable Access
   10. XML
   11. Simple Operators
       1. Arithmetic Operators
       2. Logical Operators
       3. Binary Operators
       4. Other Operators
   12. Comparison Operators
   13. Conditional Statements
       1. if, elseif, and else Statements
       2. Ternary Operators
       3. Null Coalescing and Assignment Operators
       4. switch Statements
   14. Looping Statements
       1. for Statement
       2. foreach Statement
       3. while Statement
       4. do … while Statement/do … until Statement
       5. Flow Control Statements
       6. Classes
       7. Custom Enumerations
       8. Workflow-Specific Statements
   15. Working with the .NET Framework
       1. Static Methods
       2. Instance Methods
       3. Explicitly Implemented Interface Methods
       4. Static Properties
       5. Instance Properties
       6. Learning About Types
       7. Type Shortcuts
       8. Creating Instances of Types
       9. Interacting with COM Objects
       10. Extending Types
   16. Writing Scripts, Reusing Functionality
       1. Writing Commands
       2. Running Commands
       3. Providing Input to Commands
       4. Retrieving Output from Commands
   17. Managing Errors
       1. Nonterminating Errors
       2. Terminating Errors
   18. Formatting Output
       1. Custom Formatting Files
   19. Capturing Output
   20. Common Customization Points
       1. Console Settings
       2. Profiles
       3. Prompts
       4. Tab Completion
       5. User Input
       6. Command Resolution
3. 2. Regular Expression Reference
4. 3. XPath Quick Reference
5. 4. .NET String Formatting
   1. String Formatting Syntax
   2. Standard Numeric Format Strings
   3. Custom Numeric Format Strings
6. 5. .NET DateTime Formatting
   1. Custom DateTime Format Strings
7. 6. Selected .NET Classes and Their Uses
8. 7. WMI Reference
9. 8. Selected COM Objects and Their Uses
10. 9. Selected Events and Their Uses
    1. Generic WMI Events
11. 10. Standard PowerShell Verbs
12. Index