Windows PowerShell Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition

Table of contents

1. Preface
   1.  
   2. Conventions Used in This Book
   3. Using Code Examples
   4. Safari® Books Online
   5. How to Contact Us
2. A Guided 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
3. 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. 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
          1. break
          2. continue
       6. Workflow-Specific Statements
          1. InlineScript
          2. Parallel/Sequence
          3. foreach -parallel
   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
          1. The Get-Member cmdlet
          2. .NET Framework documentation
       7. Type Shortcuts
       8. Creating Instances of Types
       9. Interacting with COM Objects
       10. Extending Types
           1. The Add-Member cmdlet
           2. Custom type extension files
   16. Writing Scripts, Reusing Functionality
       1. Writing Commands
          1. Writing scripts
          2. Writing functions
          3. Writing script blocks
       2. Running Commands
          1. Invoking
          2. Dot-sourcing
          3. Parameters
       3. Providing Input to Commands
          1. Argument array
          2. Formal parameters
          3. Command behavior customizations
          4. Parameter attribute customizations
          5. Parameter validation attributes
          6. Pipeline input
          7. Cmdlet keywords in commands
          8. $MyInvocation automatic variable
       4. Retrieving Output from Commands
          1. Pipeline output
          2. Return statement
          3. Exit statement
       5. Help Documentation
   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
          1. Adjust your window size
          2. Make text selection easier
          3. Use hotkeys to operate the shell more efficiently
       2. Profiles
       3. Prompts
       4. Tab Completion
       5. User Input
       6. Command Resolution
4. 2. Regular Expression Reference
5. 3. XPath Quick Reference
6. 4. .NET String Formatting
   1. String Formatting Syntax
   2. Standard Numeric Format Strings
   3. Custom Numeric Format Strings
7. 5. .NET DateTime Formatting
   1. Custom DateTime Format Strings
8. 6. Selected .NET Classes and Their Uses
9. 7. WMI Reference
10. 8. Selected COM Objects and Their Uses
11. 9. Selected Events and Their Uses
12. 10. Standard PowerShell Verbs
13. Index
14. About the Author
15. Colophon
16. Copyright