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Automation Today

class: middle center The World of Automation class: middle Our aspiration must be to reform, upgrade and enlarge our education system - and to make it relevant to 21st century realities of the digital economy, genomics, robotics and automation. — Ram Nath Kovind Hello Let us stick to the tradition for now: Expert (Infrastructure Automation), Merck KGaA Co-author of PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook Blogger, tinkerer and cyclist Lazy /theramiyer

Basics of Cmdlets

Cmdlets are at the core of PowerShell. As already noted in The object-oriented model, a cmdlet is a specialised .NET object, with output formatting that makes sense to an administrator. In this article, we discuss the following: Getting help information for a cmdlet Parameter sets Positional parameters Help on specific parameters Assigning values to a parameter Getting help information for a cmdlet Let us pick a common cmdlet: Get-ChildItem, a simple, useful cmdlet.

Basics of Windows PowerShell

class: center, middle Basics of Windows PowerShell The Console is your friend Familiarising the Console and the ISE The console Windows PowerShell Windows PowerShell (x86) The [administrator] window for both The Integrated Scripting Environment (.small-caps[ISE]) Windows PowerShell .small-caps[ISE] Windows PowerShell .small-caps[ISE] (x86) The [administrator] window for both Read more. Remember less, use more logic Verb-Noun format Approved verbs that tell you what exactly is being done Getting commands based on the nouns and the verbs easy Output in columns make more sense Ability to give custom names to columns No juvenile talk in help -Syntax -Examples Find commands easily Use Get-Command to find commands easily Use the -Verb and -Noun parameters as quick filters Wildcards work for command search Get-Command -Noun 'Date' Get-Command -Verb 'Set' Get-Command -Name Get-Date Read more.

Command line, anybody?

We’re Windows people. We love the GUI. We don’t use the boring plain window with grey text. All that is so yesterday. We are more comfortable moving the mouse, clicking at places, and touching the keyboard only when we have something to type. We love that experience, be it Aero™ effect, or some other sassy visuals. Command line, again, is so yesterday. Fair? Perhaps. Efficient? The console is your friend.