PowerShell Tutorials
PowerShell Tutorial for beginners. Windows PowerShell instruction thought-out for those new to PowerShell. In the next few weeks I will be posting a series of PowerShell basics that will provide a good start for a solid foundation.
Here is what I have slated:
- The Windows PowerShell Console – Configuration and Customization.
- PowerShell Basics - Cmdlets, Parameters, Command Types, Command Information, etc…
- Output using the PowerShell Format command.
- Engaging the Windows File System.
- WMI and .NET primer (real basic)
- Variables in PowerShell
- Taking what you have learned and applying it.
The initial lessons are concentrated around PowerShell as a Command Shell. The commands and syntaxes you learn will be utilized in script writing. An enormous feature of PowerShell is the ability to build and test code at the command prompt. If you have experience in VBScript you understand. VBScript doesn’t have a command line, you write the script, test it, and make adjustments. With PowerShell you can test functionality within the command line before writing it to your script, very powerful!
Enjoy the Tutorials!
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Good stuff, thank you.
Well done Mr. Hamrick. I would like to add a comment to your Introduction section. When one runs a script at the PS command line, the syntax calls for .\script.ps1. Hmmm? It still won’t run because one’s ExecutionPolicy is installed with a default of Restricted. Do a Get-ExecutionPolicy, PS shows Restricted. Do Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned , retry the .\script and Voila! There are some reasons for this that have mostly to do with security & hack prevention. Get-Help -detailed will tell you more as well as Jesse’s many pages and examples.
I had a heck of a time starting out because I didn’t “get this” subtle syntax. Hope this helps those who are being introduced.
Patrick,
That is correct, the Execution Policy is Restricted by default. For those of you who are interested in Patrick’s comment, we discuss Execution Policy and how to set it in the “PowerShell Aliases” tutorial under the “User-Defined Aliases using PowerShell Profiles” section.
foo-bar,
you are welcome…
How can i view tutorials, i couldn’t find? or is it paid, kindly let me know as i am intrested to start my scripting for the first time and have zerod on powershell as i have only windows GUI experience.
Tutorials are free and accessible from the sidebar.
I would just like to say thank you for publishing these very useful tutorials!
They have been a great primer on the versatility of PowerShell.
I am going to go out and purchase one of the books you recommended!
Best Regards.
where are the tutorials?
am I missing something here? where are the tutorials?
How about putting a TOC to the tutorials right here in this post?
Here is the link to lesson 1:
http://www.powershellpro.com/powershell-tutorial-introduction/tutorial-windows-powershell-console/
Where do you find the tutorials? I see the link at the bottom to Tutorial #1, and can search the site and find random other tutorials…but where is the “main” tutorial page with the “index” of, and/or links to available tutorials?
I guess, nevermind. I see the “links” on the side…I guess I was anticipating that the tutorials would continue with the same numbering format (i.e. 1, 2, 3, etc) so a person would know which order to take them in; guess I will start at the top and work my way down the listing.
Great site though! Glad to have some resources available.
Can you please tell me the most efficent order to take these tutorials in?
I just started learning PowerShell earlier this month.
This tutorial was fun and informative. I’m going over the tutorials again to further internalize them.
Thank you for providing such an excellent source!
How do you convert a bash script like the following:
for i in `grep -r “2\.7\.14″ *`; do cp $i $i.orig; sed -e ’s/this/that/g’ $i; done
Which recursively searches files for the string ‘2.7.14′ and replaces it with ‘2.7.15′?
Essentially, how can you process an arbitrary list of items where that list is generated by another process?
Really, where are the tutorials?
did you mean to say “Here is what I have slated”?
Is there a good reason not to list the tutorials in order in the menu? Surely that would take ten minutes or less. Why make it hard?
Thank you very much for the tutorials you supplied for NO CHARGE.
If people want to complain about you not putting them in order, I’m sure they can write their own tutorials on how not to look a gift horse in the mouth.
Thanks again for the effort you went to and provide the wider community with this help.
Go on then enlighten me as to where these magical tutorials are.
I am on one of your postings at http://www.powershellpro.com/powershell-tutorial-introduction/, but do not see the mentioned PowerShell tutorials anywhere on the site. Are they still available?
Thank you,
Sean
where are these tutorials? the first one was good and straight forward, really would like to see the rest of them.
All the tutorials links on the left hand side of this article. Initially i was also expected to have links from the main article itself, but for some reason, the author of this tutorial took a different approach. Neverthless, i’m new to PS and would like to learn from the scratch.. i mean Ground 0…
Enjoy the power of PowerShell and learn from the tutorials.
Where are the tutorials??
I’d have a better chance finding Bigfoot rather than the tutorials. Boooooooo!
Folks, the tutorials are in the SIDEBAR under the RSS ICON that says, Subscribe to RSS FEEDS, it says POWERSHELL TUTORIALS and under that you should see links and YES those links that don’t say tutorial 1,2,3 and so forth, but they are in chronological order start with the 2nd and keep going. They are good, accurate and most important FREE. So please keep your Criticism for yourself and show appreciation for somebody that put these together for FREE there is a lot involve in creating this type of tutorials so please express gratitude if have it in you.
Thanks, well done Mr. Hamrick. For sharing your knowledge, this is an invaluable tool for us that are perhaps IT guys (Geeks) but did not put interest in learning PS before as is my case. This is a tremendous tool and I reiterate my gratitude Sir. I wish that I can reciprocate your kindness at one point, Best of luck.
Bob
You guys need to study web design. How can you have a tutorials page without links to tutorials.
Duh!!!!!!
I just wanted to say thank you for a terrific resource, and totally free.
Regarding some of the other comments….
I feel I must point out that “Nothing is fool-proof in the hands of a true fool.”
I personally found the tutorials on the right of the main page and listed in a totally logical order.
Once again many thanks.
Steve B
The tutorials listing could obviously be listed out much better, but it is there. I too hunted and hunted. I clicked on the “PowerShell Tutorials” link thinking they would be listed under there only to find this very short posting and had no clue that “PowerShell Console” was the next ‘tutorial’ as there was no reason to think it was. That being said they are very useful and appreciated, but could easily be laid out in a more understandable manner in about two minutes.
Dave
how do i lok at the contents
I also couldn’t find the tutorials. FYI, when using IE its displays on the right but if your using Firefox it is placed all the way at the bottom of the page.
THanks
Hi: pls provide links for tutorials
Just found this site as need to start learning powershell (unfortunately, as dev is not my thing!), but glad to find a source of information that breaks it down to a level that I can understand. Thanks
I also enjoyed reading the comments and the lack of ability to find the tutorials. Most entertaining. Epic Fail!
thanks
Many thanks for posting these tutorials, what a great community offering. Greatly appreciated by those of us who want to get going on Powershell.
For those who cannot see where the tutorials are, they should not be in I.T. if they can’t even see the big heading on the right that says “POWERSHELL TUTORIALS”!!!!!
Bob, look at Get-Content, Set-Content and -replace parameter:
$files = get-Content d:\1\filelist.dat
foreach ($file in $files) {
$content = Get-Content $file
$result = foreach ($line in $content) {
$line -replace “in”,”im”
}
$result | Set-Content $file
}
Example above reads the content of filelist.dat which contains the path and filenames of all files where you need to make replacements, like this:
d:\1\file1.dat
d:\1\file2.dat
d:\1\file3.dat
Then it reads every file in the list and replaces “in” with “im”. In my case I put the following inside each file?.dat file:
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
And all these lines were replaced with
Lime 1
Lime 2
Lime 3
Lime 4
in all the files.
The title of the first link under the section “Powershell Tutorials” should NOT be called ‘Powershell Tutorials’. This is confusing to many. Instead, consider naming the link something like ‘Introduction’, or, ‘About these Tutorials’. Also consider an auto-generated numbering system, with the first link starting at ‘1′, the next starting at ‘2′, etc. This way people will see right away the progression of links and not get confused.
Dave W is spot on with his observations above. The current design and layout is potentially confusing to many. If I click a link that says ‘Powershell Tutorials’, I expect to be immediately taken to a list of every tutorial in the guide. Instead, I’m taken to a page with no tutorial content, and just an introduction. Most importantly, I’m left wondering, “So… I’m guessing all of the other links below the first one, ‘Powershell Tutorials’, are NOT tutorials, and either more advanced guides, or links to other sites.”
Change the text of that first link from ‘Powershell Tutorials’ to “Introduction” and I think you’re golden.
I highly suggest to SPNick that he learn to think about and view a situation as someone else might. You’ll catch many more flaws in a system that way.
Other than the subtle design flaw, great site!
You have to surf through the tutorials by clicking the links on the right hand side
You have to surf through the tutorials by clicking the links on the right hand side
Thank you Larold, after banging on the Tutorial Link several times I thought something was wrong so jumped to bottom of comments and saw your comment. I thought the other links were in addition to the tutorial. Just a beginner. Thank you again,
confusing website. not very intuitive.
took me a while to figure out where the tutorials are. had to read through the comments to figure it out.
bad website design/layout.
How can someone miss the powershell tutorials. It is written in bold on the side of the screen. Don’t tell me you can’t find it. When you came to learn powershell programming I assume you do have intention to find something on your own, not to expect spoon feeding. That’s all my 2Cents.
Got to Tutorial 1 but cannot find the rest of them.
I have worked 20 years in IT but I cannot find those tutorials. Man you need to something about that. Maybe your tutorials were exactly what I was looking for but I will leave your website now and google something else and never come back here. Utterly bad website design. Boo.
STEVE,
CHECK THE RIGHT HAND SIDE NAVIGATION COLUMN WHERE YOU FIND:
POWERSHELL TUTORALS (this page!!!!!)
POWERSHELL CONSOLE (Tutorial 1 ????)
POWERSHELL CMDLETS (Tutorial 2 ????)
…
PICK ONE!
PS I HAVE 40 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN IT, KEEP ON TRUCKING!
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