Windows PowerShell Cookbook: The Complete Guide to Scripting Microsoft's New Command Shell

by Lee Holmes

Do you know how to use Windows PowerShell to navigate the filesystem and manage files and folders? Or how to retrieve a web page? This introduction to the PowerShell language and scripting environment provides more than 430 task-oriented recipes to help you solve the most complex and pressing problems, and includes more than 100 tried-and-tested scripts that intermediate to advanced system administrators can copy and use immediately. You'll find hands-on tutorials on fundamentals, common tasks, and administrative jobs that you can apply whether you're on a client or server version of Windows. You also get quick references to technologies used in conjunction with PowerShell, including format specifiers and frequently referenced registry keys to selected .NET, COM, and WMI classes. With Windows PowerShell Cookbook , you’ll get more done in less time.

Genres: Technology, Reference, Programming, Nonfiction, Technical, Ebooks, Computers

849 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2007

Reviews

[David Howell · Rating 4 out of 5]

This appears to be a good reference book for developers who are already familiar with the basics/essence of PowerShell. As someone who is trying to learn/get an introduction to the shell, reading this book is like trying to drink from a fire hose. The book is huge. Just attempting to sit down and read it is too much. Typing in the examples as you go sort of helps, but there is just way-way too much here. It would take forever at that pace. Maybe I'll revisit this book at some future date when I've learned more about the topic from some other source.

[Jeffrey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good coverage of powershell. Helpful if you wanted a physical reference to have as a companion while working through the basics. Not a bedtime read.

[Maximiliano]

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