Table of Contents

 

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Praise for the Second Edition

Praise for the First Edition

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

About the Cover Illustration

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