Blawat Brenton J. W. - Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting one-stop guide to automating administrative tasks

Comma--Format -- Increment and decrement -- Join -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Variables, Arrays, and Hashtables -- Naming and creating variables -- Variable commands -- Clear-Variable -- Get-Variable -- New-Variable -- Remove-Variable -- Set-Variable -- Variable scope -- Local and Global scope -- Private scope -- Script scope -- Type and type conversion -- Objects assigned to variables -- Arrays -- Creating an array -- Arrays with a type -- Adding elements to an array -- Selecting elements from an array -- Changing element values in an array -- Removing elements from an array -- Removing elements by index -- Removing elements by value -- Clearing an array -- Filling variables from arrays -- Multi-dimensional and jagged arrays -- Hashtables -- Creating a hashtable -- Adding and changing elements to a hashtable -- Selecting elements from a hashtable -- Enumerating a hashtable -- Removing elements from a hashtable -- Lists, dictionaries, queues, and stacks -- Lists -- Creating a list -- Adding elements to the list -- Selecting elements from the list -- Removing elements from the list -- Changing element values in a list -- Dictionaries -- Creating a dictionary -- Adding and changing elements in a dictionary -- Selecting elements from a dictionary -- Enumerating a dictionary -- Removing elements from a dictionary -- Queues -- Creating a queue -- Enumerating the queue -- Adding elements to the queue -- Removing elements from the queue -- Stacks -- Creating a stack -- Enumerating the stack -- Adding elements to the stack -- Removing elements from the stack -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Branching and Looping -- Conditional statements -- If, else, and elseif -- Assignment within if statements -- Switch -- Wildcard and Regex;Expressions--Loops -- Foreach -- For -- Do until and do while -- While -- Break and continue -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Working with .NET -- Assemblies -- Namespaces -- Types -- Classes -- Constructors -- Calling constructors -- Calling constructors with lists of arguments -- Arguments as an array -- Properties and methods -- Static properties -- Static methods -- Non-public classes -- Type accelerators -- Using -- Using assemblies -- Using namespaces -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Data Parsing and Manipulation -- String manipulation -- Indexing into strings -- String methods and arrays -- Substring -- Split -- Replace -- Trim, TrimStart, and TrimEnd -- Insert and Remove -- IndexOf and LastIndexOf -- PadLeft and PadRight -- ToUpper, ToLower, and ToTitleCase -- Contains, StartsWith, and EndsWith -- Chaining methods -- Converting strings -- Working with Base64 -- How Base64 works -- Working with CSV -- Convert-String -- ConvertFrom-String -- Number manipulation -- Large byte values -- Power-of-10 -- Hexadecimal -- Using System. Math -- Converting strings to numeric values -- Date and time manipulation -- DateTime parameters -- Parsing dates -- Changing dates -- Comparing dates -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Regular Expressions -- Regex basics -- Debugging regular expressions -- Literal characters -- Any character (.) -- Repetition with * and + -- The escape character () -- Optional characters -- Non-printable characters -- Anchors -- Repetition -- Exploring the quantifiers -- Character classes -- Ranges -- Negated character class -- Character class subtraction -- Shorthand character classes -- Alternation -- Grouping -- Repeating groups -- Restricting alternation -- Capturing values;The Remove-Module command--The Find-Module command -- The Install-Module command -- The Save-Module command -- What is a snap-in? -- Using snap-ins -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Working with Objects in PowerShell -- Pipelines -- Standard output -- Non-standard output -- The object pipeline -- Members -- The Get-Member command -- Accessing properties -- Using methods -- Access modifiers -- The Add-Member command -- Enumerating and filtering -- The ForEach-Object command -- Where-Object command -- Selecting and sorting -- The Select-Object command -- The Sort-Object command -- Grouping and measuring -- The Group-Object command -- The Measure-Object command -- Comparing -- Importing, exporting, and converting -- The Export-Csv command -- The Import-Csv command -- Export-Clixml and Import-Clixml -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Operators -- Arithmetic operators -- Operator precedence -- Addition and subtraction operators -- Multiplication, division, and modulus operators -- Shift left and shift right operators -- Assignment operators -- Assign, add and assign, and subtract and assign -- Multiply and assign, divide and assign, and modulus and assign -- Comparison operators -- Case-sensitivity -- Comparison operators and arrays -- Equal to and not equal to -- Like and not like -- Greater than and less than -- Contains and in -- Regular-expression-based operators -- Match and not match -- Replace -- Split -- Binary operators -- Binary and -- Binary or -- Binary exclusive or -- Binary not -- Logical operators -- And -- Or -- Exclusive or -- Not -- Type operators -- As -- Is and isnot -- Redirection operators -- Redirection to a file -- Redirecting streams to standard output -- Redirection to null -- Other operators -- Call;Cover --Copyright -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewer -- www.PacktPub.com -- Customer Feedback -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction to PowerShell -- What is PowerShell? -- Quick reference -- Comments -- Special characters -- Tick in PowerShell -- Common operators -- Dropping unwanted output -- Creating arrays and hashtables -- Strings -- Common reserved variables -- Quick commands and hot keys -- PowerShell editors -- PowerShell ISE -- Features -- Installing ISE Preview -- Starting ISE -- Visual Studio Code -- Features -- Console -- Version control (Git) -- PowerShell on Linux -- Installing PowerShell -- Where are the PowerShell files? -- Changing the shell -- Profiles -- Multiplatform scripting -- Line endings -- File encoding -- Path separator -- Example -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Working with PowerShell -- Getting help -- Updatable help -- The Get-Help command -- Syntax -- Examples -- Parameter -- Detailed and Full switches -- Save-Help -- Update-Help -- About help files -- Command naming and discovery -- Verbs -- Nouns -- Finding commands -- Aliases -- Parameters and parameter sets -- Parameters -- Optional parameters -- Optional positional parameters -- Mandatory parameters -- Mandatory positional parameters -- Switch parameters -- Common parameters -- Parameter values -- Parameter sets -- Confirm, WhatIf, and Force -- Confirm parameter -- ConfirmPreference -- WhatIf parameter -- WhatIfPreference -- Force parameter -- Providers -- Drives using providers -- Using providers -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Modules and Snap-Ins -- What is a module? -- What is the PowerShell Gallery? -- The Get-Module command -- The Import-Module command;Named capture groups--Non-capturing groups -- Examples of regular expressions -- MAC addresses -- IP addresses -- Netstat command -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Files, Folders, and the Registry -- Working with providers -- Navigating -- Getting items -- Drives -- Items -- Testing existence -- Creating and deleting items -- Invoking items -- Item properties -- Filesystem properties -- Adding and removing file attributes -- Registry values -- Permissions -- Ownership -- Access and audit -- Rule protection -- Inheritance and propagation flags -- Removing access control entries -- Copying lists and entries -- Adding access control entries -- Filesystem rights -- Registry rights -- Transactions -- File catalogs -- New-FileCatalog -- Test-FileCatalog -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Windows Management Instrumentation -- Working with WMI -- WMI classes -- WMI commands -- The WMI Query Language -- Understanding SELECT, WHERE, and FROM -- Escape sequences and wildcard characters -- Logic operators -- Comparison operators -- Quoting values -- Associated classes -- WMI object path -- Using ASSOCIATORS OF -- CIM cmdlets -- Getting instances -- Getting classes -- Calling methods -- Creating instances -- Working with CIM sessions -- Associated classes -- The WMI cmdlets -- Getting instances -- Working with dates -- Getting classes -- Calling methods -- Creating instances -- Associated classes -- Permissions -- Sharing permissions -- Creating a shared directory -- Getting a security descriptor -- Adding an access control entry -- Setting the security descriptor -- WMI permissions -- Getting a security descriptor -- The access mask -- WMI and SDDL -- Summary -- Chapter 13: HTML, XML, and JSON -- HTML -- ConvertTo-Html