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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
Content preview from PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook

Preparing for Administration Using PowerShell

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Installing Visual Studio Code
  • Configuring automatic variables
  • Changing the shell behavior using variables
  • Enabling automated execution of commands for each load
  • Customizing the Terminal prompt
  • Understanding standard redirection in PowerShell
  • Calling native Linux commands from PowerShell
  • Understanding cmdlets and parameters
  • Running cmdlets with minimal keystrokes
  • Finding parameter aliases
  • Calling a PowerShell script
  • Dot-sourcing a PowerShell script
  • Calling a PowerShell cmdlet from outside of PowerShell
  • Recording the cmdlets run on the PowerShell console
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