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PowerShell in Depth
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PowerShell in Depth

by Don Jones, Jeffery Hicks, Richard Siddaway
February 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
632 pages
20h 20m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 24. Advanced syntax for scripts and functions

This chapter covers

  • Using advanced parameters
  • Aliasing parameters
  • Validating parameter input
  • Using parameter sets
  • Using common parameters

This is the chapter we’ve been waiting to get to. In it, we’re going to take almost everything from the prior chapters—writing scripts and functions, creating objects as output, using scope, and more—to the next level. In our minds, the advanced syntax we’ll cover in this chapter is something every script or function should eventually use. You’ll get an amazing amount of additional functionality and capability almost entirely for free, simply by giving PowerShell a few extra keywords here and there.

The type of script and function you’re going ...

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