Chapter 26. Understanding PowerShell Commands

This chapter provides information and commands concerning the following topics:

• Launching PowerShell

• Understanding PowerShell verbs and nouns

• Tabbing through PowerShell commands

• Understanding the different types of PowerShell commands

• Creating aliases

• Discovering Windows PowerShell commands

• Exploring get-member

• Redirecting output with Windows PowerShell

• Understanding PowerShell errors

• Understanding PowerShell variables

• Using comparison operators

• Understanding pipelining

Launching PowerShell

PowerShell is an advanced command-line tool. It’s integrated with many of the internal Windows components such as Windows Management Interface (WMI), the .NET Framework, and built-in COM ...

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