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You're reading from Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting Automate and manage your environment using PowerShell Core 6.0

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789536669

Length 626 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Linux

Concepts

Workflow Automation

Author (1):

Chris Dent

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Table of Contents (27) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Exploring PowerShell Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

2. Introduction to PowerShell

3. Modules and Snap-ins

4. Working with Objects in PowerShell

5. Operators

6. Section 2: Working with Data

7. Variables, Arrays, and Hashtables

8. Branching and Looping

9. Working with .NET

10. Strings, Numbers, and Dates

11. Regular Expressions

12. Files, Folders, and the Registry

13. Windows Management Instrumentation

14. HTML, XML, and JSON

15. Web Requests and Web Services

16. Section 3: Automating with PowerShell

17. Remoting and Remote Management

18. Asynchronous Processing

19. Section 4: Extending PowerShell

20. Scripts, Functions, and Filters

21. Parameters, Validation, and Dynamic Parameters

22. Classes and Enumerations

23. Building Modules

24. Testing

25. Error Handling

26. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Remoting on Linux

Microsoft provides instructions for installing PowerShell on Linux; these should be followed before attempting to configure remoting: Get-Content /etc/shells # Use cat or less in Bash

The native chsh (change shell) command can be used to change the default shell for the current user, as shown in the following example:

chsh -s /usr/bin/pwsh

To configure remoting using WSMan, the OMI and PSRP packages must be installed. The following example uses yum since the operating system in use is CentOS 7:

yum install omi.x86_64 omi-psrp-server.x86_64

By default, CentOS has a firewall...

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Authors (1)

Chris Dent

Chris Dent is an automation specialist with deep expertise in the PowerShell language. Chris is often found answering questions about PowerShell in both the UK and virtual PowerShell user groups. Chris has been developing in PowerShell since 2007 and has released several modules over the years.

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