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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; 4th edition (April 26, 2022)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 360 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1617296961


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 63


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.46 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.38 x 0.9 x 9.25 inches


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    • Decent but I do not like books shipped in paper bags.
Decent but I do not like books shipped in paper bags.
Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2023 by rickpep
    • First class book
Great examples and explanations.
Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2023 by Roger Kelly
    • So far so good
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I bought this the other day and it came on time. I was a little worried with the other reviewers stating their were counterfeit copies. Mine came in and I check that the free book code worked along with the front cover displaying the correct spelling. So far so good, I didn’t get a bad copy. Yay! Anyways, good read so far. Easy, pleasant to keep up with it. No grammatical errors that I can plainly see. Syntax and pictures are easily legible. Im studying this book so I can get better for my Azure studies. One thing I will notate, Powershell ISE is no longer being supported by Microsoft unfortunately and Powershell 7 doesn’t work with it. This book focuses heavily on ISE and the regular command interface. With that being said, if you have Powershell v5 or later then you should be able to run it with Powershell ISE no problem. The new kid on the block is Visual Code Studios so therefore that’s what you want to aim for when you get good with Powershell for Azure or AZ-104 certification ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2021 by Cheezewizgumby Cheezewizgumby
    • Great book even for people experienced but never did anything but copied scripts
Basically, I'm hoping that I can master PowerShell a bit better with this book, and so far I'm learning a lot even though I've lived through supporting Windows for a while. What I really like about the book is it does a pretty good job on breaking things up so that you can read them. I also like the labs at the ends of the chapters and I do them a few times to get the hang of things and remember them better. The book is also very well structured for self learning and serves very well as a classroom in a book. Well worth the cost. BTW, read this book first before you go onto Learning PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches, as I purchased the scripting book first and as I was reading the forward it recommended this book because I wasn't advanced enough for it yet. So you want to start with Windows PowerShell first if you don't have a really good foundation in PowerShell like me. I'm hoping that I will learn how to create my own tools for auditing and responding to incidents in the network after finishing both books. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2019 by Daveonator
    • Mistakes in the book that will leave the student sctratching their head and no instructor to question...
I'll update this as I go, but early impressions have me a bit concerned. I purchased this in homes of improving my personaly ability, but I already am familiar with PowerShell. So far I am to page 29 and I've already run across my first command example that is erroneous (mistyped into the book and made it past who knows how many people to make it to print). That certainly raises concerns about how the rest of my experience will proceed on my book that believes itself to hold a $44.99 value... The command in question is "Get-EventLog -newest 20 -Log -Application" per page 29, which even a quick glance told me was never going to work. I of course thought, what the heck do I know, lets give it a whirl and it didn't work. The error, if you can't spot it as quickly, is that there is no such parameter as "-application" so the hyphen is erroneous. This was meant to be a value for the previous parameter -Log, an abbreviation of -LogName, but if you are new, as in page 29 and only a handful of examples in new, you would not likely know this. This is is a minor mistake for Joe off the street to make, but not for an educational book. This might have not even been a big deal for someone to to fall asleep on the job when proof reading and overlook on like page 290, but not page 29. I'm really hoping the rest of the examples are better, but like I said this was only on page 29 so I'm not feeling great about this purchase at the moment... ... show more
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