Chapter 1. Welcome to PowerShell

1.1. What is PowerShell?

1.1.1. Shells, command lines, and scripting languages

1.2. PowerShell example code

1.2.1. Navigation and basic operations

1.2.2. Basic expressions and variables

1.2.3. Processing data

1.2.4. Flow-control statements

1.2.5. Scripts and functions

1.2.6. Remote administration

1.3. Core concepts

1.3.1. Command concepts and terminology

1.3.2. Commands and cmdlets

1.3.3. Command categories

1.3.4. Aliases and elastic syntax

1.4. Parsing the PowerShell language

1.4.1. How PowerShell parses

1.4.2. Quoting

1.4.3. Expression-mode and command-mode parsing

1.4.4. Statement termination

1.4.5. Comment syntax in PowerShell

1.5. How the pipeline works

1.5.1. Pipelines and streaming behavior

1.5.2. Parameters and parameter binding

1.6. Formatting and output

1.6.1. Formatting cmdlets

1.6.2. Outputter cmdlets

1.7. Summary

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