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Microsoft® Windows PowerShell™ Step By Step
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Microsoft® Windows PowerShell™ Step By Step

by Ed Wilson
May 2007
Beginner
320 pages
8h 23m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 3 Quick Reference

To

Do This

Produce a listing of all variables defined in a Windows PowerShell session

Use the Set-Location cmdlet to change location to the variable PSDrive, then use the Get-ChildItem cmdlet

Obtain a listing of all the aliases

Use the Set-Location cmdlet to change location to the alias PSDrive, then use the Get-ChildItem cmdlet to produce a listing of aliases. Pipeline the resulting object into the Where-Object cmdlet and filter on the name property for the appropriate value

Delete a directory that is empty

Use the Remove-Item cmdlet and supply the name of the directory

Delete a directory that contains other items

Use the Remove-Item cmdlet and supply the name of the directory and specify the recurse argument

Create a new text ...

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