Windows PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management program from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and the associated scripting language.
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21 Facts About Windows PowerShell
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Windows PowerShell provides a hosting API with which the Windows PowerShell runtime can be embedded inside other applications.
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Windows PowerShell includes its own extensive, console-based help accessible via the Get-Help cmdlet.
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Different versions of Windows PowerShell provided various special-purpose command-line interpreters with their own command sets but they were not interoperable.
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Specifically, he noted that Linux considers everything an ASCII text file, whereas Windows PowerShell considers everything an "API that returns structured data".
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On 25 April 2006, not long after the initial Monad announcement, Microsoft announced that Monad had been renamed Windows PowerShell, positioning it as a significant part of its management technology offerings.
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Windows PowerShell provides an interactive command-line interface, where the commands can be entered and their output displayed.
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Windows PowerShell enables the creation of aliases for cmdlets, which Windows PowerShell textually translates into invocations of the original commands.
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Whenever a cmdlet runs, Windows PowerShell invokes these methods in sequence, with ProcessRecord being called if it receives pipeline input.
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Windows PowerShell invokes the mutator with the parameter value or pipeline input, which is saved by the mutator implementation in class variables.
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Windows PowerShell includes various cmdlets for managing various Windows systems, including the file system, or using Windows Management Instrumentation to control Windows components.
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Windows PowerShell includes a dynamically typed scripting language which can implement complex operations using cmdlets imperatively.
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Windows PowerShell provides special variables, such as $args, which is an array of all the command line arguments passed to a function from the command line, and $_, which refers to the current object in the pipeline.
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The Windows PowerShell scripting language evaluates arithmetic expressions entered on the command line immediately, and it parses common abbreviations, such as GB, MB, and KB.
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However, Windows PowerShell allows for advanced functions that support named parameters, positional parameters, switch parameters and dynamic parameters.
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Windows PowerShell can be configured to silently resume execution, without actually throwing the exception; this can be done either on a single command, a single session or perpetually.
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Windows PowerShell scripting language supports binary prefix notation similar to the scientific notation supported by many programming languages in the C-family.
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One can use Windows PowerShell embedded in a management application, which uses the Windows PowerShell runtime to implement the management functionality.
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Windows PowerShell v2 includes changes to the scripting language and hosting API, in addition to including more than 240 new cmdlets.
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Many of these similar commands come out-of-the-box defined as aliases within Windows PowerShell, making it easy for people familiar with other common shells to start working.
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