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