To get help on any cmdlet use get-help View and change execution policy with Get- Get-Help Get-Service Execution and Set-Execution policy To get all available cmdlets use get-command Get-Executionpolicy Get-Command Set-Executionpolicy remotesigned To get all properties and methods for an object use get-member Get-Service | Get-Member
To Execute Script powershell.exe –noexit &”c:\myscript.ps1” Functions Parameters separate by space. Return is optional. Variables Arrays function sum ([int]$a,[int]$b) Must start with $ To initialise { $a = 32 $a = 1,2,4,8 return $a + $b Can be typed To query } [int]$a = 32 $b = $a[3] sum 4 5
Constants Created without $ Set-Variable –name b –value 3.142 –option constant Referenced with $ $b
Creating Objects To create an instance of a com object New-Object -comobject <ProgID> $a = New-Object –comobject "wscript.network" $a.username
To create an instance of a .Net Framework object. Parameters can be passed if required
$a $a = Read-Host “Enter your name” or Write-Host "Hello" $a Write-Host $a –foregroundcolor “green”
Miscellaneous Line Break ` Passing Command Line Arguments Get-Process | Select-Object ` Passed to script with spaces name, ID myscript.ps1 server1 benp Comments # Accessed in script by $args array # code here not executed $servername = $args[0] Merging lines ; $a=1;$b=3;$c=9 $username = $args[1] Pipe the output to another command | 40 Get-Service | Get-Member Do While Loop Do Until Loop Can repeat a set of commands while a condition is met Can repeat a set of commands until a condition is met $a=1 $a=1 Do {$a; $a++} Do {$a; $a++} While ($a –lt 10) Until ($a –gt 10)
For Loop ForEach - Loop Through Collection of Objects
Repeat the same steps a specific number of times Loop through a collection of objects For ($a=1; $a –le 10; $a++) Foreach ($i in Get-Childitem c:\windows) {$a} {$i.name; $i.creationtime}
If Statement Switch Statement
Run a specific set of code given specific conditions Another method to run a specific set of code given $a = "white" specific conditions if ($a -eq "red") $a = "red" {"The colour is red"} switch ($a) elseif ($a -eq "white") { {"The colour is white"} "red" {"The colour is red"} else "white"{"The colour is white"} {"Another colour"} default{"Another colour"} }
Reading From a File Writing to a Simple File
Use Get-Content to create an array of lines. Then loop Use Out-File or > for a simple text file through array $a = "Hello world" $a = Get-Content "c:\servers.txt" $a | out-file test.txt foreach ($i in $a) Or use > to output script results to file {$i} .\test.ps1 > test.txt
Writing to an Html File
Use ConvertTo-Html and > $a = Get-Process $a | Convertto-Html -property Name,Path,Company > test.htm Windows PowerShell | 20.04.2007
Writing to a CSV File
Use Export-Csv and Select-Object to filter output $a = Get-Process $a| Select-Object Name,Path,Company | Export-Csv -path test.csv
