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Learn PowerShell - Pre-Requisites Skills & Environment Setup
Preparing the skills and environment before writing your first PowerShell command: comfort in the command line, familiarity with Windows, and the concepts of variables, loops, conditionals, filesystem, and basic networking. Concludes with installing PowerShell 7+ via winget and MSI, verifying pwsh, and setting up side-by-side usage with Windows PowerShell 5.1.
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Learn PowerShell - History, Background & Why You Need PowerShell
Tracing the origins of PowerShell: from the fragile Batch and VBScript, the birth of the Monad project in 2006, the evolution from version 1.0 to the cross-platform 7, the reasons why the world needs PowerShell, its comparison with CMD, Python, and Bash, and its real-world use cases.
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Learn PowerShell - PowerShell Fundamentals & Console Basics
Understanding the foundations of PowerShell: the difference between powershell.exe and pwsh.exe, choosing the right host between the console, ISE, VS Code, and Windows Terminal, dissecting cmdlet structure with the Verb-Noun convention, using Get-Help and Update-Help, exploring the system with Get-Command, Get-Member, and Get-Module, and configuring the execution policy.
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Learn PowerShell - Variables & Data Types
Understanding how to store and manage data in PowerShell: variables with $name, automatic and preference variables, data types from string, number, boolean, datetime, array, and hashtable, casting techniques, string manipulation with interpolation and here-strings, the format operator, and the differences between array, ArrayList, and generic List.
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Learn PowerShell - Operators & Expressions
Mastering operators and expressions in PowerShell: arithmetic with division and modulus, word-based comparisons like -eq, -like, and -match, the -and, -or, and -not logic operators, assignment, redirection to files, plus special operators like dot-sourcing, call, range, format, -join, and -split used in almost every script.
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Learn PowerShell - Conditional Logic: If, Else & Switch
Making PowerShell scripts make decisions: the if, elseif, and else structures, using comparison operators in conditions, the concepts of truthy values and $null, the switch statement with wildcards and regex, plus the modern ternary and null-coalescing features in PowerShell 7, ending with a practical exercise checking a service's status.
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Learn PowerShell - Loops & Iteration
Understanding loops for processing bulk data: the difference between foreach and ForEach-Object and the $_ automatic variable in the pipeline, for loops with a counter, while and do-until for conditions, Break and Continue control, plus performance considerations between pipeline and foreach.
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Learn PowerShell - Functions & Script Blocks
Organizing code into reusable functions: declaration with the Verb-Noun pattern, parameters with validation and default values, advanced functions with CmdletBinding and pipeline input, script blocks, scope coverage, and best practices for functions ready to use in real scripts.
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Learn PowerShell - Pipeline & Object Manipulation
Flowing objects between command lines with the pipeline: the object-not-text concept, filtering with Where-Object, property selection with Select-Object, sorting with Sort-Object, grouping with Group-Object, aggregation with Measure-Object, plus parallel ForEach-Object in PowerShell 7.
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Learn PowerShell - Working with Files & Folders
Managing files and folders systematically: exploring directories with Get-ChildItem, reading and writing files with Get-Content and Set-Content, path manipulation with Test-Path and Split-Path, copy, move, and delete operations, plus strategies for reading large files with streaming.
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