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PowerShell 2.0 RTMed

luisabreu — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:07:11 GMT

It seems like it introduces a ton of new stuff…

PowerShell v2.0 CTP is here

luisabreu — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:49:27 GMT

When v1.0 was in beta, I used to really love it (and I still do!). The PowerShell blog has just announced that the 2.0 CTP is out. Go get it now :)

Detecting admin elevation in PowerShell

luisabreu — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:08:28 GMT

Though i really don't like the new UAC much (yes, I agree that it's a necessity, but I still don't like it :)), I'm trying to use it again lately. Another thing I'm trying to do is relearning PowerShell. Ian has posted a great article on how you can use configure your shell so that you know when you're running it as admin or as a regular user (do note that this is not as simple as you may be thinking due to the UAC).

PowerShell: getting along with cmdlet

luisabreu — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:40:51 GMT

As I've said in the previous post, cmdlets can be seen as the working unit of this new shell. If you're starting with Powershell, you should start by seeing the available cmdlets. This can be easilly done through the get-command cmdlet:

PS :> get-command

After running this command, you'll get a list of all the cmdlets that have been installed in PowerShell. Another usefull cmdlet is get-help. You can use it to get info on another cmdlet. for instance, if you run the following:

PS :> get-help get-command -detailed

you'll get all the info associated with the get-command cmdlet. These 2 cmdlets should be enough to get you busy on the next hours since they let you explore all the available cmdlets.

Restarting Power-Shell

luisabreu — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:59:02 GMT

After downloading and installing it in Vista, I've finally restarted learning it. A long time ago, I used this shell and really enjoyed it. Those that read the PT blog should remember the Monad series I've written at the time. Since I really don't remember many of the things I used to know, I've thought that it would be a good idea to write something about it here. By doing this, I'll keep reserving at least an hour each two days to try things out and then I'll put some notes about it here.

So, what is PowerShell? In practise, I think it can be seen as a shell that lets you use .NET objects. This means that now you can do some cool stuff from the command line since all commands receive and return objects. Btw, commands are no longer called commands. This new shell introduced the notion of command-let (aka cmdlet). According to the docs, a cmdlet is a "simple, single-function command-line tool built into the shell". In practise, you may end up writing several cmdlets to perform specific tasks.

it's all for now. In the next post I'll start writing some examples.

After all, PowerShell is out!

luisabreu — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:33:03 GMT

Jason (thanks!) has added a comment saying that PowerShell was released yesterday. here's the link for the x86 and x64 downloads. btw, can anyone please tell me why it isn't listed on the PowerShell download page?