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PowerShell for Sysadmins
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PowerShell for Sysadmins

by Adam Bertram
February 2020
Beginner
320 pages
7h 57m
English
No Starch Press
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10PARSING STRUCTURED DATA

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With ingrained support for any .NET object, and just about every shell method you can think of, PowerShell is able to read, update, and remove data from numerous sources. If you’re lucky enough to have your data stored in some kind of structured way, working with that data is even easier.

In this chapter, we’ll focus on a few common forms of structured data including CSV, Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, and JSON. You’ll learn how to manage each kind of data by using both native PowerShell cmdlets and .NET objects. By the end of the chapter, you should be a data-wrangling pro, able to use PowerShell to manage all sorts of ...

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