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I. WatersPowerShell for Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7064-6_1

1. Introduction

Ian Waters1  
(1)
Bexhill, UK
 

It’s likely you don’t need too much of an introduction to PowerShell because you purchased a book on how to write scripts and develop with it after all! First, we are going to dive into a little history, learn some terminology, and then get stuck into the fun part, writing code.

Essentially PowerShell is made up of a command line shell similar to that of the old DOS command prompt that can run code written in the PowerShell scripting language.

For years we Windows system administrators and script developers were using DOS-based batch scripts ...

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