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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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Dissecting a .NET Core object

This is a tangential recipe, in case you are interested in seeing how PowerShell has been implemented.

.NET Core works on a cross-platform standard Common Language Infrastructure. Therefore, it has been possible to encapsulate the internal workings of Linux using .NET Core. As we will see in future chapters, PowerShell is object-oriented, just like .NET Core. For this demonstration, we will pick a simple system class called System.IO.DirectoryInfo to show information about a certain directory. We will also compare the output of the .NET Core object to the output of a PowerShell cmdlet, which also shows information about a certain directory.

You do not have to remember the names of the .NET Core classes or methods, ...
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