PowerShell Tutorial

Xah Lee, 2009-07-30

This is Windows PowerShell tutorial. This tutorial focus on practical use and is example based. You should be already familiar with a scripting lang, ⁖ {cmd.exe, bash, Visual Basic, Python, PHP, JavaScript}.

This tutorial assumes you are using PowerShell version 2.0.

This page is work in progress. When this page reaches some maturity, this paragraph will be removed.

Quick Start

• Install ＆ PowerShell Help
• PowerShell as cmd.exe
• Windows Console Key Shortcuts ⌨, Emacs PowerShell Modes
• Listing Alias, Finding Command's Alias
• Piping Output and Input
• Environment Variables

• Predefined Variables
• Creating PowerShell Scripts

PowerShell vs Bash Compared (PowerShell for Unixers)

References

Windows PowerShell References.