Windows PowerShell Pocket Reference

Table of contents

1. Preface
   1. Font Conventions
   2. Comments and Questions
   3. Safari® Books Online
2. 1. A Whirlwind Tour of Windows PowerShell
   1. Introduction
   2. An Interactive Shell
   3. Structured Commands (Cmdlets)
   4. Deep Integration of Objects
   5. Administrators As First-Class Users
   6. Composable Commands
   7. Techniques to Protect You from Yourself
   8. Common Discovery Commands
   9. Ubiquitous Scripting
   10. Ad-Hoc Development
   11. Bridging Technologies
   12. Namespace Navigation Through Providers
   13. Much, Much More
3. 2. PowerShell Language and Environment
   1. Commands and Expressions
   2. Comments
   3. Variables
   4. Booleans
   5. Strings
      1. Literal and Expanding Strings
      2. Here Strings
      3. Escape Sequences
   6. Numbers
      1. Simple Assignment
      2. Administrative Numeric Constants
      3. Hexadecimal and Other Number Bases
   7. Arrays and Lists
      1. Array Definitions
      2. Array Access
      3. Array Slicing
   8. Hashtables (Associative Arrays)
      1. Hashtable Definitions
      2. Hashtable Access
   9. XML
   10. Simple Operators
       1. Arithmetic Operators
       2. Logical Operators
       3. Binary Operators
       4. Other Operators
   11. Comparison Operators
   12. Conditional Statements
       1. if, elseif, and else Statements
       2. switch Statements
   13. Looping Statements
       1. for Statement
       2. foreach Statement
       3. while Statement
       4. do … while Statement/do … until Statement
       5. Flow Control Statements
          1. break
          2. continue
   14. Working with the .NET Framework
       1. Static Methods
       2. Instance Methods
       3. Static Properties
       4. Instance Properties
       5. Learning About Types
          1. The Get-Member cmdlet
          2. .NET Framework documentation
       6. Type Shortcuts
       7. Creating Instances of Types
       8. Interacting with COM Objects
       9. Extending Types
          1. The Add-Member cmdlet
          2. Custom type extension files
   15. Writing Scripts, Reusing Functionality
       1. Writing Scripts
       2. Running Scripts
          1. Invoking
          2. Dot-sourcing
       3. Providing Input to Scripts
          1. Argument array
          2. Formal parameters
          3. Pipeline input
          4. Cmdlet keywords in scripts
          5. $MyInvocation automatic variable
       4. Retrieving Output from Scripts
          1. Pipeline output
          2. Return statement
          3. Exit statement
       5. Functions
       6. Script Blocks
   16. Managing Errors
       1. Nonterminating Errors
       2. Terminating Errors
   17. Formatting Output
       1. Custom formatting files
          1. Custom formatting files
   18. Capturing Output
   19. Tracing and Debugging
       1. The Set-PsDebug Cmdlet
       2. The Trace-Command Cmdlet
       3. The Verbose Cmdlet Output
   20. Common Customization Points
       1. Console Settings
          1. Adjust your window size
          2. Make text selection easier
          3. Use hotkeys to operate the shell more efficiently
       2. Profiles
       3. Prompts
       4. Tab Completion
4. 3. Regular Expression Reference
5. 4. PowerShell Automatic Variables
6. 5. Standard PowerShell Verbs
7. 6. Selected .NET Classes and Their Uses
8. 7. WMI Reference
9. 8. Selected COM Objects and Their Uses
10. 9. .NET String Formatting
    1. String Formatting Syntax
    2. Standard Numeric Format Strings
    3. Custom Numeric Format Strings
11. 10. .NET DateTime Formatting
    1. Custom DateTime Format Strings
12. Index
13. About the Author
14. Copyright