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Monad (AKA PowerShell)

Errata for Monad (AKA PowerShell)

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Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
Printed Page 4
paragraph 2

From the Start menu, select run and type MSH

Should be

From the Start menu, select run and type Powershell

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 4-5
Multiple Locations

get-process commandlet is referenced, this does not appear to exist in the current version of Powershell.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 5
2nd paragraph

The -Exclude parameter of Get-Process is used in a example. This -Exclude parameter does not appear to exist in the current implementation of Power Shell:

<<

PS U:> gps [ws]*

Handles NPM(K) PM(K) WS(K) VM(M) CPU(s) Id ProcessName
------- ------ ----- ----- ----- ------ -- -----------
387 10 4444 5588 42 3.47 992 services
222 9 2892 8172 57 0.75 1900 ShellKer
21 1 168 400 4 0.27 840 smss
235 9 7112 10184 61 0.81 260 spoolsv
124 4 2560 4392 36 0.16 468 svchost
221 6 3296 5276 63 0.17 1224 svchost
581 14 2192 4936 39 2.42 1300 svchost
1744 61 18268 25636 101 13.34 1444 svchost
92 4 1368 3496 30 0.05 1536 svchost
257 8 2512 5576 40 0.33 1704 svchost
189 35 3452 7648 46 0.23 1792 svchost
80 3 2144 3304 30 0.03 1820 svchost
98 4 1504 4300 37 3.39 3984 SynTPEnh
1168 0 0 248 2 13.77 4 System
65 2 1536 1840 14 0.03 792 wdfmgr
621 66 8648 4028 64 5.06 948 winlogon
547 15 18304 38908 212 5.86 372 WINWORD
163 4 2084 5456 37 0.22 1408 wmiprvse

PS U:> gps [ws]* -Exclude win
Get-Process : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'Exclu
At line:1 char:19
+ gps [ws]* -Exclude <<<< win
>>

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 10
Most of the page

The get-property and set-property commands are referenced. THESE NO LONGER WORK AND HAVE BEEN REPLACED. Specifically with the get-itemproperty and set-itemproperty commands.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 10
paragraph 1

MSH D:MshScripts>get-property .

Should be

MSH D:MshScripts>Get-Itemproperty .

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 11
last paragraph

get-provider command should be get-psprovider
get-drive command should be get-psdrive

These are not listed in the PowershellRC1 update PDF.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 18
first command line

The process is no longer "msh". The command should read:
get-process 9780596100094 | format-list ...

This is not corrected in the PowershellRC1 update PDF.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 19
1st para get-process command

When you run the command you get an Exception error "Exception getting "PriorityClass": "Access is denied" Command runs, but unclear why there is this error.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 23
All over the page

The file extension MSH does not work. It should be PS1 !!!

In the first 23 pages I found already 4 faults.

 Anonymous