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0201 | Don't fear the shell

Disclaimer | Attribution​

This short "Introduction to PowerShell" is based on my own notes taken based on the PowerShell For Beginners video course by Jason Helmick and Jeffrey Snover.

I highly recommend this course as a great starting point for learning about PowerShell; it was instrumental in my own understanding of the subject. I would like to extend a big thank you to the creators for providing such valuable resources!

Getting current version​

$PSVersionTable

Copy and paste in ps​

  • highlight text -> right click for copy
  • right click for paste

Commandlets / cmdlets structure​

  • <verb>-<noun>

Multiple commands​

# ; is a statement separator
cls; get-alias

Common aliases and Linux commands​

  • history | get-history
  • cd | set-location c:\
  • ls | dir | get-childitem
  • clear | cls | clear-host | clear
  • list aliases | get-alias | gal
  • get aliases for the command | get-alias -Definition get-process
  • mkdir | md jason | mkdir jeffrey
  • man | help | get-help
  • cat | type | cat | get-content

Windows native commands​

calc
notepad
mspaint

Windows networking commands​

ping
ipconfig /all

Comments​

# test comment

Wildcards​

gal *sv