Apress, Fachbücher, Pro Windows PowerShell (Englisch, Hristo Deshev, 2008)

Here is your best companion to the capabilities and power that PowerShell offers. Inside this book, you´ll discover the object-oriented features of the shell and how they help in extracting and manipulating data. You´ll then learn how to use those features to solve real-world problems: manipulating files, working with text, monitoring systems, and performing operations over the network. In addition, you´ll find freely available tools and extensions that help you get results with Windows PowerShell fast. I remember the first time I got to play with Windows PowerShell—I had some spare time on my hands, and after reading a blog post, I quickly set off to download the unofficial pre-release bits that were available at the time. I originally had very low expectations about the tool—all I wanted was a shell that is up to par with its UNIX cousins. Boy, was I wrong! The moment I learned about object pipelines, I knew this tool was going to change the way I think about automating tasks on Windows. Fast forward a couple of months, and here I am, so much in love with Power- Shell that I even wrote a whopping 400-page book about it. Why Another Book on Windows PowerShell? As much as I like PowerShell, its plain-console looks make it very easy for people to dismiss it without really seeing what lies beneath the surface. I feel it is still largely undiscovered—I know many professionals who have yet to try it out. When administrators see PowerShell for the first time, many simply shrug, assuming it´s just another version of the primitive command prompt we inherited from DOS. Here is an ideal companion to the capabilities and power that PowerShell offers. The book shows how Powershell integrates with the outside world. It offers examples dealing with other programs, the OS, and the network as well as introduces free and open-source tools and extensions that will help readers get results with Windows PowerShell fast.Pro Windows PowerShell is ideal for professionals who handle repetitive tasks. It shows how PowerShell can help script most of those tasks and reduce their burden. The book contains examples on automating typical system administration tasks: configuration, monitoring, network queries, text manipulation, and file operations. The ideas presented will be beneficial to power users needing a better shell and an automation environment, system and network administrators looking to streamline their daily activities, and software developers wishing to optimize their build and deploy process.