PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook

Introduction

The initial design of PowerShell is considered a replacement for DOS commands. The new design features allowed a certain degree of modernization and adaptation to the changing need of the growing market. In fact, the initial design is a clone from Unix/Linux Bash concepts, such as the pipe, aliases, and so on.

Working with files is arguably the most important part of being an IT pro, especially in the Linux environment, where everything is a file. This type of management helps with modularity, not to mention easy readability. Configuration files, so far, have been plain text and using them for administration has been about strings. PowerShell is a little ahead in this case: apart from handling simple files (which we call unstructured ...