PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook

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Title Page

Dedication

About Packt

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Contributors

About the authors

About the reviewers

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Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

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Conventions used

Sections

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

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Get in touch

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Introducing PowerShell Core

Introduction

A brief note on .NET Core

The assumptions

How to read this book

An important note

Writing the cmdlets (Linux admins note)

Off we go

Installing PowerShell

Getting ready

How to do it…

Installation on Ubuntu

Installing from the repository

Installing via direct download

Installation on CentOS

Installing from the repository

Installing via direct download

Using the Snapcraft package

Using the binary archives

Bonus– using the Install-PowerShell script (including on macOS)

How it works…

See also

Updating and using Help

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

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Exploring about_ topics

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Discovering cmdlets

How to do it…

How it works…

Finding and installing PowerShell modules

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Listing the various providers in PowerShell

How to do it…

How it works…

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Understanding objects

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

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Parsing input from text to object

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

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Comparing the outputs of Bash and PowerShell

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

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Comparing Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core

Support for snap-ins

Convenience aliases

PowerShell Workflows

PowerShell Desired State Configuration

Working with aliases

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

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Dissecting a .NET Core object

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

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Listing out the execution policies and setting a suitable one