Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches

[DannyDore]

• https://www.manning.com/books/learn-powershell-scripting-in-a-month-of-lunches-second-edition

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Chapters

• Before you begin
• Setting up your scripting environment
• WWPD: What would PowerShel do?
• Review: Parameter binding and the PowerShell pipeline
• Scripting language: A crash course
• The many forms of scripting (and which to choose)
• Scripts and security
• Always design first
• Avoiding bugs: Start with a command
• Building a basic function and script module
• Getting started with advanced functions
• Objects: The best kind of output
• Using all the streams
• Simple help: Making a comment
• Errors and how to deal with them
• Filling out a manifest
• Changing your brain when it comes to scripting
• Professional-grade scripting
• An introduction to source control with Git
• Pestering your script
• Signing your script
• Publishing your script
• Squashing bugs
• Enhancing script output presentation
• Wrapping up the .NET Framework
• Storing data--not in Excel!
• Never the end