Ebook: Powershell Pocket Reference: Portable Help for Powershell Scripters

This portable reference to PowerShell summarizes the command shell and scripting language and provides a concise guide to the many tasks that make PowerShell so useful. If you're a busy administrator and don't have time to plow through huge books or in-depth online searches, this is the ideal on-the-job tool.

Written by PowerShell team member Lee Holmes and excerpted from his PowerShell Cookbook, this edition offers up-to-date coverage of Windows PowerShell 5.1 and open source PowerShell Core up to 7 and beyond.

Beginning with a guided tour of PowerShell, this handy guide covers:


PowerShell language and environment
Regular expression reference
XPath quick reference
.NET string formatting
.NET DateTime formatting
Selected .NET classes and their uses
WMI reference
Selected COM objects and their uses
Standard PowerShell verbs