Windows PowerShell Pocket Reference: Portable Help for PowerShell Scripters (Pocket Reference

by Lee Holmes

This portable reference to Windows PowerShell 3.0 summarizes the command shell and scripting language, and provides a concise reference to the many tasks that make PowerShell so useful. If you’re a busy Windows administrator, and don’t have time to plow through huge books or search online, this is the ideal on-the-job tool. Written by Microsoft PowerShell team member Lee Holmes, and excerpted from his Windows PowerShell Cookbook, this edition offers up-to-date coverage of PowerShell 3.0. You’ll find information on the .NET classes and legacy tools you need to manage your system, along with chapters on how to write scripts, manage errors, and format output. Beginning with a guided tour of Windows PowerShell, this handy guide

Genres: Programming, Computers, Technical, Reference

242 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Guillaume · Rating 3 out of 5]

Only a quick reference for powershell, but a good one for me: efficient and with some good examples. Be sure to look at the content to know if it has what you want: it neither list "standard" cmdlet (so it's not specific to administrator, poweruser or developper), nor explain how to create one with .NET.

[Aleksey Trufanov · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good:
Language basics described short and good.

Bad:
About 50% of this book contains description of regular expressions, XPath, string formatting options and other topics that are NOT specific for PowerShell, but there is NO (even short) description of standard PowerShell cmdlets.

[Richard Slater · Rating 3 out of 5]

good reference, quite dry