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PowerShell can save you a lot of time on Windows admin tasks, but to use it effectively you need to understand how it works. Here's a crash course in Windows PowerShell scripting basics to get you ...

PowerShell is one of Microsoft's preferred tools for managing Windows Servers. Although it's easy to think of PowerShell as a local management tool, PowerShell can just as easily be used to manage ...

Windows PowerShell has a built-in History feature that remembers all the commands you executed when using it. While it should remember the History of the active session, I see that it retains more ...

One of the appealing features of Windows PowerShell is that it can be extended. You are not limited to the commands that Microsoft ships. You can load additional commands and functionality via a ...

Linux built-ins are commands that are built into the shell, much like shelves that are built into a wall. You won’t find them as stand-alone files the way standard Linux commands are stored in ...

This article is reprinted from the book A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming 3rd edition, with permission of the author and publisher ...