Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Fourth Edition

22 Using someone else’s script

Much as we hope you’ll be able to construct your own PowerShell commands and scripts from scratch, we also realize that you’ll rely heavily on the internet for examples. Whether you’re repurposing examples from someone’s blog, or tweaking a script you’ve found in an online script repository, being able to reuse someone else’s PowerShell script is an important core skill. In this chapter, we’ll walk you through the process we use to understand someone else’s script and make it our own.

Thanks Credit goes to Brett Miller, who provided us with the script we use in this chapter. We deliberately asked him for a less-than-perfect script that doesn’t necessarily reflect all of the best practices we normally like to see. ...