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Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Fourth Edition: Covers Windows, Linux, and macOS

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Designed for busy IT professionals, this innovative guide will take you from the basics to PowerShell proficiency through 25 tutorials you can do in your lunch break. In Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Fourth Edition you will learn: Discoverability with the Help system Background jobs and automation techniques Simple scripting to automate repetitive tasks Managing cloud services from major cloud providers Extending PowerShell with commands Common syntax and commands cheat sheet Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Fourth Edition is a task-focused guide for administering your systems using PowerShell. It covers core language features and admin tasks, with each chapter a mini-tutorial you can easily complete in under an hour. Discover how PowerShell works on different operating systems, and start automating tasks so they take just a few seconds to complete. No previous scripting experience required. The book is based on the bestselling Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches by community legends Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks. PowerShell team members Travis Plunk and Tyler Leonhardt and Microsoft MVP James Petty have updated this edition to the latest version of PowerShell, including its multi-platform expansion into Linux and macOS. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the technology PowerShell gives you complete command line control over admin tasks like adding users, exporting data, and file management. Whether you’re writing one-liners or building complex scripts to manage cloud resources and CI/CD pipelines, PowerShell can handle the task. And now that PowerShell is truly cross-platform, you don’t have to switch scripting languages when you move between Windows, Linux, and macOS. About the book Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Fourth Edition is a new edition of the bestseller that introduced PowerShell to over 100,000 readers. With bite-sized lessons and hands-on exercises, this amazing book guides you from your first command to writing and debugging reusable scripts for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Set aside just an hour a day and you’ll soon be tackling increasingly complex automation tasks with PowerShell. What's inside Discoverability with the Help system PowerShell on macOS and Linux Background jobs and automation techniques Managing cloud services from major cloud providers Common syntax and commands cheat sheet About the reader No previous experience with PowerShell or Bash required. About the author James Petty is CEO of PowerShell.org and The DevOps Collective, and a Microsoft MVP. Travis Plunk is an engineer on the PowerShell team. Tyler Leonhardt is an engineer on Visual Studio Code. Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks are the original authors of Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches. Table of Contents 1 Before you begin 2 Meet PowerShell 3 Using the help system 4 Running commands 5 Working with providers 6 The pipeline: Connecting commands 7 Adding commands 8 Objects: Data by another name 9 A practical interlude 10 The pipeline, deeper 11 Formatting: And why it’s done on the right 12 Filtering and comparisons 13 Remote control: One-to-one and one-to-many 14 Multitasking with background jobs 15 Working with many objects, one at a time 16 Variables: A place to store your stuff 17 Input and output 18 Sessions: Remote control with less work 19 You call this scripting? 20 Improving your parameterized script 21 Using regular expressions to parse text files 22 Using someone else’s script 23 Adding logic and loops 24 Handling errors 25 Debugging techniques 26 Tips, tricks, and techniques 27 Never the end Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Manning


Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 26, 2022


Edition ‏ : ‎ 4th


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 360 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1617296961


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 63


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.38 x 0.7 x 9.25 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #31,862 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1 in Windows Administration (Books) #1 in Microsoft .NET #4 in Linux Networking & System Administration


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  • Great entry to Powershell
Format: Paperback
Doesn’t come with the Lunches but the lessons are great and it’s an enjoyable entry level intro to Powershell.
Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2026 by Ken H.

  • Excellent resource!
Format: Paperback
It does what it says and it's at your own pace. Great resource with accurate and dependable information.
Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2026 by Kenny G.

  • There's hope for me after all 🤣 There's hope for me after all 🤣
Format: Paperback
Don Jones and company have done an excellent job at creating a book that really helps you understand Powershell... From the basics all the way to actually understand how to create a script and what it means. It starts from the basics such as what parameters are, the difference between the Powershell CLI and the Powershell ISE environment, what objects and methods are... All the way to how you would chain cmdlets together to create more advanced functionality. Before reading this book I thought that I would never truly understand Powershell... But after reading this it's all starting to make sense. By chapter 20 you'll be able to at least understand how you would go about creating scripts and best practices in terms of formatting and sharing scripts within your organization. The chapters aren't super long either. Each chapter will come with a lab assignment to complete that serves as an avenue to practice what you've learned. I 100% recommend this book for beginners. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2024 Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2024 by Patrick Medley jr

  • Decent but I do not like books shipped in paper bags.
Format: Paperback
Decent but I do not like books shipped in paper bags.
Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2023 by rickpep

  • A Shell of A Different Kind
Format: Paperback
Not a "how-to" book about efficiently shucking oysters like I was expecting...but I run my Microsoft PC like an ACE now!
Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2026 by Jason O.

  • The Lab Questions are actually useful!? Yes, they are!!
Format: Paperback
I've been reading tech books since the 90's - typically every two or three years I want to learn something new. I'm not naturally good at learning tech so I tend to go through a LOT of books and resources until I find something that's sane, useful and delivers fast results. This is one of those resources!! I had to stop doing the first lab and write a review because question number seven actually anticipated something I wanted to do (save my command history into a text file so I could edit the good stuff to keep running notes!!) Seriously impressed and very thankful because so many tech books are utter garbage or only as good as yesterday's leftovers - some nutritional value but not very satisfying. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2023 by 10_01

  • Good read
Format: Paperback
This book is wonderful if you have the time and desire to learn powershell.
Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2025 by james hensley

  • Put in the time and you come out ahead.
Format: Paperback
Great book. Used this same book on an old version years ago. Teaches you what you need to continue on your journey alone armed with a good starting base.
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2024 by Fed

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