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PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook
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PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook

by Prashanth Jayaram, Ram Iyer
November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
566 pages
17h 15m
English
Packt Publishing
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Now to the part where this is rocket science. First, identify the payload. Calculate the orbital velocity and the rotational velocity of the Earth. Next… you get the point. However, here are a couple of things to remember when you want to run a script.

A script, when called simply, will load, execute, and exit. It will not store anything in the memory—neither the functions, nor the variables and other data. If you want the variables, functions, and other information retained in the session, the script has to be called in a specific way, like so:

PS> # To retain variable and function information in the session:
PS> . ./path/to/script.ps1

PS> # To simply have PowerShell run the script:
PS> & ./path/to/script.ps1

In Bash, we ...

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