PowerShell Tutorial

PowerShell How-To. Table of Contents

This chapture Covers the most common tasks for interactive use, with focus on standalone sample code that you can use right away.

Install and Help

• Download, Install
• Start PowerShell
• Exit, Abort
• Print Version
• Builtin Help
• Name Completion
• List of Aliases
• Find Command
• Case Sensitivity

List Files

• List Files
• Show Fullpath, No Truncate Lines
• List Empty Files 📜
• Count Number of Files
• List Files by Wildcard Name Pattern
• Filter File Name by Regular Expression
• List File by Size
• Sort Files by Size 📜
• List Files by Date Time
• Search Text in Files (grep)

Directory Operations

• Navigate Directory
• Show Current Dir Path
• List Directories
• PowerShell: show directory as tree
• List Empty Dir 📜
• Dir Size 📜

• Create Directory
• Copy Directory
• Delete Directory
• Path parameter

File Operations

• Copy File
• Rename File
• Move File
• Delete File
• Create New File
• Set File Read Only Attribute
• Create File Symbolic Link, Hard Link, Junction
• Get File Content
• Join Files
• Compare Files (Show Difference)
• Open File by Default App
• File Date Time

File Properties, Attributes, Permission

• File Properties

• File Attributes
• List All Possible File Attribute Values
• Show a File's Attributes
• Show Hidden Files
• List Files with Specific Attribute
• Set a File's Attributes
• File Attributes Object Type

• Change File Owner Perm (ACL)

Windows config

• Environment Variable
• Session Environment Variable
• Environment Variable in Registry
• Show Path Environment Variable
• Set Path Environment Variable

• Windows Registry
• Turn on File Sharing

Zip Tar

• Extract zip tar 7z lz
• Create Archive zip, tar, 7z
• Download Webpage, curl, wget

Misc

• Launch App, Start Process
• Empty Trash
• Disk Size
• Date Time
• Clear Command History 📜
• Run as Admin

PowerShell in-depth. Table of Contents

This chapter covers fundamental concepts of PowerShell for writing PowerShell scripts.

File Name Extension

• File Name Extension

Comment

• Comment Syntax

Object and Type

• Object Type, Properties, Methods

Path

• Path parameter
• Path Expansion
• LiteralPath parameter
• Path Operations

Pipe

• Pipe
• Pipeline Commands

Number

• Number Input
• Arithmetic Operators

String

• String
• Single Quoted String
• Double Quoted String
• Here-String
• Escape Characters
• String Length
• Join String
• Split String
• Format String
• String Methods
• String Wildcards
• Regular Expression Operators
• Regex Result ($Matches)
• Regular Expression Syntax

Variable

• Assignment Operators
• Variable
• Automatic Variables

Boolean

• True, False (boolean)
• Boolean Operators
• Test Equality
• Test Order (Greater, Lesser)

Conditional

• If Then Else (Flow Control)

Data Structure

Array

• Array
• Array Sub-Expression Operator, Collection to Array
• Array and Types
• Nested Array, Multi-Dimensional Array
• Array, Get Items
• Array, Set Item
• Test If Collection Contains a Value
• Join Array, Append
• Filter Array (where)
• Delete Array, Clear Array
• Array to String
• Array Methods
• Iterate Array

Hashtable, Dictionary

• Hashtable, Dictionary
• Hashtable: Get Key Value, Add, Remove
• Join Hashtables
• Hashtable Key / Property Name Clash
• Hashtable Get All Keys
• Sort Hashtable
• Hashtable Methods
• Iterate Hashtable

Loop, Iteration

• Loop, Iteration

Input, Output

• Print
• Prompt User for Input
• Read File
• Write to File

Function

• Define Function
• Function Return Value and Statement
• Function Parameters
• Define Function to Accept Pipe
• Function Inline Doc
• Allowed Characters in Function Name

Error

• throw error

Profile and Script

• Profile (init file)
• Create a Script
• Load a Script
• Eval Variable, String, ScriptBlock
• Get Current Script Path

Misc

• Timing, Benchmark Speed
• What is Cmdlet
• What is Provider, Datastore