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Getting Started with Powershell

You're reading from  Getting Started with Powershell

Product type Book
Published in Aug 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783558506
Pages 180 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Getting Started with PowerShell
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. First Steps 2. Building Blocks 3. Objects and PowerShell 4. Life on the Assembly Line 5. Formatting Output 6. Scripts 7. Functions 8. Modules 9. File I/O 10. WMI and CIM 11. Web Server Administration Next Steps
Index

The scripter's secret weapon – tab completion


Although Get-Command is a great way to find cmdlets, the truth is that the PowerShell cmdlet names are very predictable. In fact, they're so predictable that after you've been using PowerShell for a while you won't probably turn to Get-Command very often. After you've found the noun or the set of nouns that you're working with, the powerful tab completion found in both the PowerShell console and the ISE will allow you to enter just a part of the command and press tab to cycle through the list of commands that match what you have entered. For instance, in keeping with our examples dealing with services, you could enter *-Service at the command line and press tab. You would first see Get-Service, followed by the rest of the items in the previous screenshot as you hit tab. Tab completion is a huge benefit for your scripting productivity for several reasons, such as:

  • You get the suggestions where you need them

  • The suggestions are all valid command...

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