Purpose for PowerShell
Doing automation and solving problems are huge challenge. we need to have an interactive shell an environment so that you can explore and automate manual jobs.
The purpose to powershell is making you effective getting stuff done faster and solving problems that you probably had a hard time solving before.
Customize the shell for comfort
comfort is important. we’re going to spend a lot of time looking at this console. This is important you need to make sure you can see individual characters on the powershell prompt. Go to the properties and font.
Tip
you should check that you are in admin mode. If something’s going a little wonky, go check and see you are running as admin.
Getting familiar with the shell
- Cmdlets : verbs – Noun
- Native commands work!
- Examples – Ping, IPConfig, calc, notepad, mspaint
- cls – Clear-Host
- cd – Set-Location
- dir, ls – Get-Childitem
- type, cat – Get-Content
- Copy, cp – copy-item
It makes it comfortable for whatever environment you’re coming from such as UNIX, you can get started right away.
Use this command to find more Aliases
get-alias # or you can use gal