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From Zero to PowerShell 2.0 – Working with the File System

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Andreas

After the initial exploration of PowerShell, learning about pipelines and looking at interactive vs. scripted execution, it is time to do something useful. I have picked an example from “the real world”: an application is using a set of file-system … Continue reading →

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From Zero to PowerShell 2.0 – Interactive vs. Scripting Mode

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Andreas

In the previous two posts [1,2], we have used the interactive Windows PowerShell Console or the PowerShell ISE Console Window to execute commands. While this works fine for some ad-hoc processing, the reality will usually be different: you will develop, … Continue reading →

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From Zero to PowerShell 2.0 – Pipelines

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Andreas

After the first look at PowerShell 2.0, we already know there are tons of commands – or Commandlets as they are called in PowerShell. Each one of them is a more or less powerful feature by itself but usually, you … Continue reading →

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From Zero to PowerShell 2.0 – The first Steps

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Andreas

In all honesty, I did hear about Windows PowerShell quite a while ago but never really bothered to take a closer look. Mainly, because I was thinking that this would be little more than a modern Command Line Prompt and … Continue reading →

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