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Essential PowerShell
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Essential PowerShell

by Holger Schwichtenberg
June 2008
Beginner
504 pages
7h 31m
English
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Chapter 6. The PowerShell Script Language

Besides the commandlet infrastructure, Windows PowerShell (WPS) offers its own scripting language for the creation of command sequences in the classic imperative programming style. The PowerShell Script Language (PSL) includes variables, loops, conditions, functions and error handling.

Microsoft did not use an existing script language as the basis for this new creation, but was, according to their own words, “inspired” by the UNIX shell languages, PERL, PHP, Python, and C#. As a consequence, ...

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