Professional Windows PowerShell
Chapter One
Getting Started with
Windows PowerShell
If you are like me, then when you begin to look seriously at an interesting piece of software, you
like to get your hands dirty and play with it from the beginning. In this chapter, I show you how
to get started using Windows PowerShell, and I'll show you enough of the PowerShell commands
to let you begin to find your way around effectively. In the rest of the book, I help you build on
that initial knowledge so that you can use PowerShell for a wide range of useful tasks, depending
on your requirements.
Windows PowerShell, as you probably already know, is Microsoft's new command shell and
scripting language. It provides a command line environment for interactive exploration and
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