List of Figures

Chapter 2. Meet PowerShell

Figure 2.1. You can use PowerShell in one of four possible ways.

Figure 2.2. The standard PowerShell console window: PowerShell.exe

Figure 2.3. Configuring the console application’s properties

Figure 2.4. The PowerShell ISE (PowerShell_ISE.exe)

Figure 2.5. The three main areas of the ISE, and the toolbar that controls them

Figure 2.6. IntelliSense works like tab completion in the ISE.

Chapter 4. Running commands

Figure 4.1. The anatomy of a PowerShell command

Figure 4.2. Show-Command uses a graphical prompt to complete command parameters.

Figure 4.3. Show-Command produces the proper command-line syntax based on your entries in its dialog box.

Figure 4.4. Interpreting a PowerShell error message

Figure 4.5. What’s a “second path fragment?”

Chapter 5. Working with providers

Figure 5.1. Viewing files, folders, and drives in Windows Explorer

Figure 5.2. The registry and the filesystem have the same kind of hierarchical storage.

Chapter 6. The pipeline: connecting commands

Figure 6.1. The output of Get-Process is a table with several columns of information.

Figure 6.2. Viewing the exported CSV file in Windows Notepad

Chapter 7. Adding commands

Figure 7.1. Changing the PSModulePath environment variable in Windows

Chapter 9. The pipeline, deeper

Figure 9.1. Creating a text file containing computer names, with one name per line

Figure 9.2. Comparing the output of Get-Content to the input parameters of Get-Service