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Xah's PowerShell Tutorial

Xah Lee, 2009-07

This is Windows PowerShell tutorial. This tutorial focus on practical use and is example based. You should know cmd.exe, or bash, or, any of Visual Basic, Python, PHP, JavaScript. For example, you should understand concepts like strings, loops, variables, lists, functions/subroutines.

This tutorial assumes you are using PowerShell version 2.0.

This page is work in progress. When this page reaches some maturity, this paragraph will be removed.

First, spend 10 minutes to read Wikipedia intro: PowerShell to understand its background, context, a condensed summary.

Quick Start

• Install & PowerShell Help
• PowerShell as cmd.exe
• Windows Console Shortcuts & Emacs PowerShell Modes
• PowerShell Aliases & Finding Commands
• Piping Output and Input
• Environment Variables

• Predefined Variables
• Creating PowerShell Scripts

Work in progress

PowerShell for Unixers

• Intro to PowerShell Objects
• Intro to PowerShell Providers
• Syntax at a Glance
• Strings, Arrays, Hash tables, functions, scripts

References

Windows PowerShell References.

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