Learn Windows PowerShell Commands & PowerShell Scripts

This lecture will have a basic introduction to Powershell. Powershell is a command-line shell designed especially for system administration.

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In PowerShell, the word pipeline generally refers to a series of commands that have been joined together. Individual commands are separated from one another by using the pipe symbol (hence the name pipeline). When commands are joined together in a pipeline, the output from one command is used as input for the next command in the sequence.

To give you a more concrete example, consider the Get-Process cmdlet. This cmdlet retrieves a list of the processes that are running on the machine. You can then use the pipe symbol to treat the list of processes as the input for the next command in the series. You might, for example, want to narrow down the list to look at some specific processes. To do so, you could pipe the Get-Process command’s output into the Where-Object cmdlet, which can filter that output. Here is an example.

Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.ProcessName -eq ‘dllhost’}

This command shows all of the processes whose name is equal to dllhost.

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You will learn about how to create files folders in same location and different location.

You will learn how to copy files and folders using Powershell code

In this section, you will learn how to read various file types that have been created in the last lecture.

Learn How to Get Date and Time using PowerShell Scripts

Learn How to Use For-Loop in PowerShell

Learn How to Use For-Each Loop in PowerShell

Learn How to Use While-Loop in PowerShell

Learn How to Use Do-While in PowerShell

Learn How to create Hashtable and Access Data in hashtable using Powershell scripts

Learn How to Test a JSON file Using PowerShell

Learn How to Send an Email Using PowerShell

Learn How to Compress a Folder and make a ZIP Using PowerShell. Also Learn How to Extract a ZIP folder.