Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Fourth Edition: Covers Windows, Linux, and macOS

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Designed for busy IT professionals, Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Fourth Edition is a guide that takes readers from basics to PowerShell proficiency using 25 tutorials that can be completed within an hour. With bite-sized lessons and hands-on exercises, readers learn PowerShell core language features and admin tasks, making system administration easier and faster. PowerShell is a command-line tool that gives IT professionals complete control over admin tasks like adding users, exporting data, and file management. It is a task-focused guide for administering systems using PowerShell, and it covers simple scripting to automate repetitive tasks, managing cloud services from major cloud providers, and extending PowerShell with commands. The book also includes a common syntax and commands cheat sheet. This edition has been updated to include its expansion into Linux and macOS, making it truly cross-platform.

Key features:

• Bite-sized lessons and hands-on exercises
• Covers core language features and admin tasks
• Each chapter is a mini-tutorial that takes an hour
• No previous scripting experience required
• Covers PowerShell on different operating systems
• Includes managing cloud services from major cloud providers
• Explores extending PowerShell with commands
• Includes common syntax and commands cheat sheet
• Includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications upon purchasing the print book

About the author:

• James Petty is the CEO of PowerShell.org and The DevOps Collective and a Microsoft MVP.
• Travis Plunk is an engineer on the PowerShell team.
• Tyler Leonhardt is an engineer on Visual Studio Code.
• Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks are the original authors of Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches.

Table of Contents:

• Before you begin
• Meet PowerShell
• Using the help system
• Running commands
• Working with providers
• The pipeline: Connecting commands
• Adding commands
• Objects: Data by another name
• A practical interlude
• The pipeline, deeper
• Formatting: And why it’s done on the right
• Filtering and comparisons
• Remote control: One-to-one and one-to-many
• Multitasking with background jobs
• Working with many objects, one at a time
• Variables: A place to store your stuff
• Input and output
• Sessions: Remote control with less work
• You call this scripting?
• Improving your parameterized script
• Using regular expressions to parse text files
• Using someone else’s script
• Adding logic and loops
• Handling errors
• Debugging techniques
• Tips, tricks, and techniques
• Never the end

About the technology:
PowerShell is a command-line tool that gives IT professionals complete command line control over admin tasks like adding users, exporting data, and file management. Whether you’re writing one-liners or building complex scripts to manage cloud resources and CI/CD pipelines, PowerShell can handle the task. And now that PowerShell is truly cross-platform, you don’t have to switch scripting languages when you move between Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Product details:

• Publisher: Manning; 4th edition (April 26, 2022)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 360 pages
• ISBN-10: 1617296961
• ISBN-13: 978-1617296963
• Item Weight: 1.46 pounds
• Dimensions: 7.38 x 0.8 x 9.25 inches