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PowerShell Cheat Sheet

This document provides a summary of common PowerShell commands and techniques for executing scripts, working with objects and data types, control flow, functions, loops, conditional logic, input/output, and more. Key topics covered include getting help, viewing available commands, capturing output and errors, passing parameters, initializing variables and arrays, writing to files and screens, and basic scripting constructs.

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PowerShell Cheat Sheet

This document provides a summary of common PowerShell commands and techniques for executing scripts, working with objects and data types, control flow, functions, loops, conditional logic, input/output, and more. Key topics covered include getting help, viewing available commands, capturing output and errors, passing parameters, initializing variables and arrays, writing to files and screens, and basic scripting constructs.

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To Execute Script powershell.exe noexit &c:\myscript.

ps1 Miscellaneous Line Break ` Get-Process | Select-Object ` name, ID Comments # # code here not executed Merging lines ; $a=1;$b=3;$c=9 Pipe the output to another command | Get-Service | Get-Member Essential Commands To get help on any cmdlet use get-help Get-Help Get-Service To get all available cmdlets use get-command Get-Command To get all properties and methods for an object use get-member Get-Service | Get-Member Creating Objects To create an instance of a com object New-Object -comobject <ProgID> $a = New-Object comobject "wscript.network" $a.username To create an instance of a .Net Framework object. Parameters can be passed if re quired New-Object type <.Net Object> $d = New-Object -Type System.DateTime 2006,12,25 $d.get_DayOfWeek() Passing Command Line Arguments Passed to script with spaces myscript.ps1 server1 benp Accessed in script by $args array $servername = $args[0] $username = $args[1] Setting Security Policy View and change execution policy with Get-Execution and Set-Execution policy Get-Executionpolicy Set-Executionpolicy remotesigned PowerShell Cheat Sheet Arrays To initialise $a = 1,2,4,8 To query $b = $a[3] Variables Must start with $ $a = 32 Can be typed [int]$a = 32 Constants Created without $ Set-Variable name b value 3.142 option constant Referenced with $ $b Writing to Console Variable Name $a or Write-Host $a foregroundcolor green

Capture User Input Use Read-Host to get user input $a = Read-Host Enter your name Write-Host "Hello" $a Functions Parameters separate by space. Return is optional. function sum ([int]$a,[int]$b) { return $a + $b } sum 4 5 1 Do Until Loop Can repeat a set of commands until a condition is met $a=1 Do {$a; $a++} Until ($a gt 10) ForEach - Loop Through Collection of Objects Loop through a collection of objects Foreach ($i in Get-Childitem c:\windows) {$i.name; $i.creationtime} For Loop Repeat the same steps a specific number of times For ($a=1; $a le 10; $a++) {$a} Do While Loop Can repeat a set of commands while a condition is met $a=1 Do {$a; $a++} While ($a lt 10) If Statement Run a specific set of code given specific conditions $a = "white" if ($a -eq "red") {"The colour is red"} elseif ($a -eq "white") {"The colour is white"} else {"Another colour"} Switch Statement Another method to run a specific set of code given specific conditions $a = "red" switch ($a) { "red" {"The colour is red"} "white"{"The colour is white"} default{"Another colour"} } Writing to a Simple File Use Out-File or > for a simple text file $a = "Hello world" $a | out-file test.txt Or use > to output script results to file .\test.ps1 > test.txt Reading From a File Use Get-Content to create an array of lines. Then loop through array $a = Get-Content "c:\servers.txt" foreach ($i in $a) {$i} Writing to an Html File

Use ConvertTo-Html and > $a = Get-Process $a | Convertto-Html -property Name,Path,Company > test.htm Writing to a CSV File Use Export-Csv and Select-Object to filter output $a = Get-Process $a| Select-Object Name,Path,Company | Export-Csv -path test.csv

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