Overview

This portable reference to PowerShell summarizes the command shell and scripting language and provides a concise guide to the many tasks that make PowerShell so useful. If you're a busy administrator and don't have time to plow through huge books or in-depth online searches, this is the ideal on-the-job tool. Written by PowerShell team member Lee Holmes and excerpted from his PowerShell Cookbook, this edition offers up-to-date coverage of Windows PowerShell 5.1 and open source PowerShell Core up to 7 and beyond. Beginning with a guided tour of PowerShell, this handy guide covers: • PowerShell language and environment • Regular expression reference • XPath quick reference • .NET string formatting • .NET DateTime formatting • Selected .NET classes and their uses • WMI reference • Selected COM objects and their uses • Standard PowerShell verbs