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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introducing MSH | |
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| Get MSH | |
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| Get to Know Verb-Noun Syntax and Cmdlets | |
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| Access the Registry Like a Filesystem | |
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| Create a Pipeline to Pass Information | |
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| Display Data | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| Customizing MSH | |
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| Load and Save Scripts | |
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| Save Keystrokes with Aliases | |
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| Work with the Command Line | |
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| Make Yourself at Home | |
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| Find Out What a Command Will Do Before Running It | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| Scripting MSH | |
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| The .NET Framework | |
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| Work with Structured Objects | |
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| Store Information in Variables | |
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| Control Script Flow with Comparisons | |
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| Do Repetitive Work with Loops | |
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| Capture Reusable Behavior in a Function | |
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| Transform Objects as They Pass Through the Pipeline | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| Managing MSH Scope and State | |
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| Control Access to Variables and Functions | |
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| Work with Special Characters | |
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| Use Wildcards to Define a Set of Items | |
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| Take String Comparison Beyond -eq, -lt, and -gt | |
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| When Things Go Wrong | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| Adding to the MSH Toolkit | |
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| Extend the Toolkit with Generic Cmdlets | |
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| Work with Text Files | |
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| Work with Structured File Formats | |
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| How Variables Relate to the .NET Framework | |
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| Calling Methods of the .NET Class Library | |
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| Using new-object with COM Objects | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| Working with Operating System Components | |
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| Monitoring the Event Log | |
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| Auditing System Services | |
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| Get System Information from WMI | |
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| Manage Filesystem Permissions | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| Putting MSH to Work | |
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| Invoke Commands with & | |
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| Parse Text-Based Application Output | |
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| Fill In the Blanks: Take Input from the Console | |
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| Untangle GOTO-Based Batch Files | |
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| Recap: Replacing Common Batch File Syntax | |
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| Renaming Multiple Files at Once | |
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| Match and Replace Content in a Text File | |
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| List Recently Changed Files | |
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| Counting Types of Files | |
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| Find Out Which Command Is Being Run | |
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| Downloading Content from the Web | |
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| Shorthand for Frequently Used Data | |
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| Returning System Uptime | |
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| Simple UI Automation | |
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| Colorize the Output of get-childitem | |
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| What's Left? | |
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| Syntax and Grammar | |
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| Standard Cmdlets, Functions, and Aliases | |
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| Index | |