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PowerShell Fundamentals: A practical foundation in PowerShell commands, modules, data, objects, operators, and control flow
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Operating SystemsSystem Administration
ISBN13: 9781808761393
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Published: Sep 7 2026
Pages: 318
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.67 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
Build a strong PowerShell foundation by learning command discovery, modules, variables, objects, pipelines, operators, conditional statements, and loops, with clear examples that prepare you to start scripting and automating everyday tasks
Key Features:
- Build a solid PowerShell foundation through commands, modules, variables, objects, and operators
- Learn to work effectively with the PowerShell pipeline and object-based output
- Write practical logic using comparisons, conditions, switch statements, and loops
Book Description:
PowerShell for Beginners provides a clear, structured introduction to the core concepts you need to start using PowerShell confidently. Designed for readers with little or no PowerShell experience, the book begins with the command line, editors, the help system, command discovery, parameters, providers, profiles, and other essential features.
You will then learn how to discover, install, and use modules and repositories before working with variables, arrays, hashtables, and ordered collections. The book explains PowerShell's object-based approach and shows how to use pipelines, inspect object members, filter and enumerate data, select and sort results, group and measure information, compare objects, and import, export, convert, and format data.
The final chapters build your scripting foundation with PowerShell operators, conditional statements, switch statements, and loops. By the end, you will understand the fundamental language constructs and data-handling techniques needed to read commands, combine them effectively, and begin creating useful PowerShell scripts and automation workflows.
What You Will Learn:
- Navigate PowerShell and use its help and command-discovery features
- Find, install, and use PowerShell modules
- Create and manage variables, arrays, and hashtables
- Work with objects, pipelines, filtering, sorting, and formatting
- Use arithmetic, comparison, logical, assignment, and other operators
- Build decision-making logic with if, elseif, else, and switch
- Automate repetitive logic using PowerShell loops
- Use break and continue to control script execution
Who this book is for:
This book is for aspiring system administrators, IT professionals, developers, students, and complete beginners who want to learn PowerShell from the ground up. It introduces the PowerShell command line and help system before progressing through modules, variables, arrays, hashtables, objects, operators, conditional statements, and loops. Basic familiarity with operating systems is helpful, but no prior PowerShell experience is required.
Table of Contents
- Introduction to PowerShell
- Modules
- Variables, Arrays, and Hashtables
- Working with Objects in PowerShell
- Operators
- Conditional Statements and Loops
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