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Effective Windows PowerShell free ebook

A late Christmas gift for everyone,  Keith Hill has turned a set of blog posts into an 61 pages long PowerShell ebook.

Download your own copy here.

 

Table of content:

  • Introduction
  • Item 1: Four Cmdlets that are the Keys to Discovery within PowerShell
    • Key #1: Get-Command
    • #2: Get-Help
    • Key #3: Get-Member
    • Key #4: Get-PSDrive
    • PowerShell 2.0 Update
  • Item 2: Understanding Output
    • Output is Always a .NET Object
    • Function Output Consists of Everything That Isn't Captured
    • Other Types of Output That Can't Be Captured
  • Item 3: Know What Objects Are Flowing Down the Pipeline
  • Item 4: Output Cardinality - Scalars, Collections and Empty Sets - Oh My!
    • Working with Scalars
    • Working with Collections
    • Working with Empty Sets
  • Item 5: Use the Objects, Luke. Use the Objects!
  • Item 6: Know Your Output Formatters
  • Item 7: Understanding PowerShell Parsing Modes
  • Item 8: Understanding ByPropertyName Pipeline Bound Parameters
  • Item 9: Understanding ByValue Pipeline Bound Parameters
  • Item 10: Error Handling
    • Terminating Errors
    • Non-terminating Errors
    • Error Variables
    • Working with Non-Terminating Errors
    • Handling Terminating Errors
    • Trap Statement
    • Try / Catch / Finally
  • Item 11: Regular Expressions - One of the Power Tools in PowerShell
    • PowerShell 2.0 Update
  • Item 12: Comparing Arrays
  • Item 13: Use Set-PSDebug -Strict In Your Scripts – Religiously
    • PowerShell 2.0 Update
  • Item 14: Commenting Out Lines in a Script File
    • PowerShell 2.0 Update
  • Item 15: Using the Output Field Separator Variable $OFS
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