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Exercises -- Further reading -- Chapter 5: PowerShell Control Flow - Conditionals and Loops -- An introduction to IDEs and VS Code -- Installing VS Code -- Configuring VS Code for PowerShell -- Conditional control - if, else, elseif, and switch -- The if statement -- The switch statement -- Loops -...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Parlow, Nick, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing [2024]
Edición:First edition
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009805127806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright and Credits
  • Contributors
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Part 1: PowerShell Fundamentals
  • Chapter 1: Introduction to PowerShell 7 - What It Is and How to Get It
  • Technical requirements
  • What is PowerShell 7?
  • What is PowerShell 7 used for?
  • Scripting languages versus system programming languages
  • Getting PowerShell 7
  • Installation from an .msi file
  • Installation from the .zip file
  • Installation with winget
  • Other ways to install
  • Running PowerShell 7
  • Running PowerShell with administrator privileges
  • Autocomplete
  • Getting help
  • Get-Command
  • Get-Help
  • Get-Member
  • Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 2: Exploring PowerShell Cmdlets and Syntax
  • Technical requirements
  • What are cmdlets?
  • Exploring cmdlet structure
  • The correct use of aliases
  • Understanding cmdlet syntax
  • How to find more cmdlets
  • Finding modules and cmdlets on your machine
  • Finding new modules and cmdlets
  • Working interactively with PowerShell
  • Windows Terminal - an alternative terminal emulator
  • Installing Windows Terminal from Microsoft Store
  • Summary
  • Exercises
  • Chapter 3: The PowerShell Pipeline - How to String Cmdlets Together
  • How to bring cmdlets together - the pipeline
  • What is an object?
  • Selecting and sorting objects
  • Using Select-Object
  • Ordering objects with Sort-Object
  • Filtering objects
  • Understanding comparison operators
  • Understanding Where-Object advanced syntax
  • Multiple filters in the advanced syntax
  • Filter optimization
  • Enumerating objects
  • Parallel enumeration
  • How the pipeline works - parameter binding
  • Understanding ByValue parameter binding
  • ByPropertyName parameter binding
  • Troubleshooting the pipeline - pipeline tracing
  • Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further reading.
  • Chapter 4: PowerShell Variables and Data Structures
  • Understanding PowerShell variables
  • Variables are not their contents
  • Naming variables
  • The three common types of PowerShell variable
  • Exploring object types
  • What is an object? - redux
  • Discovering value types
  • Booleans
  • Integers
  • Real numbers
  • Char
  • Typing explained
  • Dynamic versus static typing
  • Casting variables
  • Navigating reference types
  • Arrays
  • Strings
  • Hashtables
  • Splatting - a cool use for hashtables
  • Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 5: PowerShell Control Flow - Conditionals and Loops
  • An introduction to IDEs and VS Code
  • Installing VS Code
  • Configuring VS Code for PowerShell
  • Conditional control - if, else, elseif, and switch
  • The if statement
  • The switch statement
  • Loops - foreach, do while, do until, while, for
  • The foreach loop statement
  • The do while and do until loop statements
  • The while loop
  • The for loop
  • Breaking and continuing
  • The break statement
  • The continue statement
  • Let's play a game
  • Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 6: PowerShell and Files - Reading, Writing, and Manipulating Data
  • Understanding formatting
  • Format-List
  • Format-Table
  • Format-Wide
  • Formatting gotchas
  • Writing a text file
  • Using ConvertTo- and Export- cmdlets
  • CSV
  • XML
  • HTML
  • Handling files
  • A brief note about PSProviders and PSDrives
  • Item- cmdlets
  • Working with files
  • Get-Content
  • Import- cmdlets
  • Let's have some fun - measuring the most frequent words in a text file
  • Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 7: PowerShell and the Web - HTTP, REST, and JSON
  • Working with HTTP
  • Why don't we see Forms information in PowerShell 7?
  • Authentication
  • Getting to grips with APIs
  • RPC APIs
  • SOAP APIs
  • REST APIs
  • WebSocket APIs.
  • Working with REST
  • Invoke-RestMethod
  • Working with JSON
  • ConvertFrom-Json
  • ConvertTo-Json
  • Test-Json
  • Let's have some fun - who is on the International Space Station?
  • Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further reading
  • Part 2: Scripting and Toolmaking
  • Chapter 8: Writing Our First Script - Turning Simple Cmdlets into Reusable Code
  • Introduction to scripting
  • Why do we want to write scripts?
  • Getting scripts
  • Running scripts
  • Writing a script
  • Identifying changing values
  • Working with parameters
  • Creating useful parameters
  • Specifying type
  • Making parameters mandatory
  • Taking values from the pipeline
  • Switch parameters
  • Providing help for our script
  • Comments
  • Comment-based help
  • Write-Verbose
  • Parameter help messages
  • Summary
  • Further reading
  • Exercises
  • Chapter 9: Don't Repeat Yourself - Functions and Scriptblocks
  • Why do we care about repeating code?
  • How to turn repeating code into a function
  • What makes a function?
  • Function parameters
  • Filters
  • The concept of scope
  • Parent and child scopes
  • Scope modifiers
  • Exploring scriptblocks
  • How to run a scriptblock
  • Lambdas
  • Let's do something useful
  • Summary
  • Further reading
  • Exercises
  • Chapter 10: Error Handling - Oh No! It's Gone Wrong!
  • What is an error?
  • Terminating and non-terminating exceptions and errors
  • Understanding error actions
  • The ErrorActionPreference variable
  • The -ErrorAction parameter
  • Catching errors
  • Try/Catch/Finally
  • Creating errors
  • Exploring debugging
  • Script instrumentation
  • Debugging cmdlets
  • Debugging with VS Code
  • Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 11: Creating Our First Module
  • Working with modules
  • Module locations
  • Module autoloading
  • Importing modules
  • PowerShellGet
  • Writing a simple module
  • A word of caution - dot-sourcing.
  • Turning a script into a module
  • Nested modules
  • More modules
  • Module manifests
  • Using scaffolding tools such as Plaster
  • Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 12: Securing PowerShell
  • Why is security so important?
  • A PowerShell remoting whistlestop tour
  • Enabling PowerShell remoting
  • Creating a session
  • Joining and leaving a session
  • One-to-many sessions
  • Securing PowerShell against inadvertent mistakes
  • Execution policy
  • Other features
  • Running PowerShell securely
  • Application control
  • Language modes
  • Security servicing criteria
  • Software Bill of Materials
  • Windows Antimalware Scan Interface support
  • Secure Shell (SSH) remoting
  • Just Enough Administration
  • PowerShell logging
  • Over the shoulder logging
  • Deep script block logging
  • Module logging
  • Writing secure code
  • Storing passwords securely
  • Signing scripts
  • Parameter security
  • Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further reading
  • Part 3: Using PowerShell
  • Chapter 13: Working with PowerShell 7 and Windows
  • Understanding PowerShell 7 and Windows PowerShell
  • Exploring compatibility
  • Which modules are compatible with PowerShell 7?
  • What doesn't work with PowerShell 7
  • Managing machines with CIM and WMI
  • Introduction to CIM and WMI
  • Querying data
  • Making changes
  • Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 14: PowerShell 7 for Linux and macOS
  • Technical requirements
  • Installing PowerShell 7
  • Installing PowerShell on Ubuntu 22.04
  • Installing PowerShell on CentOS 8 and 9
  • Installing PowerShell on CentOS 7
  • Installing VS Code
  • Running PowerShell on Linux
  • Remoting with OpenSSH
  • Checking that PowerShell has OpenSSH support
  • Installing OpenSSH on Windows
  • Installing OpenSSH on Linux
  • Running remote sessions
  • Authentication
  • PowerShell for macOS
  • Installing Homebrew on macOS.
  • Installing PowerShell on macOS
  • Installing VS Code on macOS
  • Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 15: PowerShell 7 and the Raspberry Pi
  • Technical requirements
  • Introduction to the Raspberry Pi
  • Installing PowerShell 7 and VS Code
  • Installing PowerShell
  • Installing VS Code
  • Connecting remotely to the Pi
  • Working with a headless Pi
  • Connecting to the Pi with PowerShell
  • Connecting to the Pi with VS Code
  • Running PowerShell on Raspberry Pi OS
  • Installing the IoT module
  • Exploring the IoT module
  • Simple physical computing
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 16: Working with PowerShell and .NET
  • Exploring .NET
  • Software frameworks explained
  • Common language infrastructure
  • Common language runtime - CoreCLR
  • Framework Class Library - CoreFX
  • .NET history
  • The uses of .NET
  • The components of .NET
  • Assemblies
  • Types
  • Enumerations
  • Classes
  • Namespaces
  • Members
  • Versioning
  • Working with .NET in PowerShell
  • PowerShell assemblies
  • Dynamic assembly loading
  • Creating instances of types
  • Using .NET
  • An alternative to the Task Scheduler
  • Creating GUI objects
  • Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further reading
  • Answers to Activities and Exercises
  • Index
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