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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

Parameters revisited


Just like scripts, functions can take parameters. Remember that parameters are placeholders, which let you vary the execution of the function (or script) based on the value that is passed to the parameter (called the argument). The MdAndGo function that we wrote earlier had a single parameter, but you can use as many parameters as you want. For instance, if you had a process that copied items from one folder to another and you wanted to write a function to make sure that both the source and destination folders already exist, you could write a function like this:

It should be clear from this example that parameters in the Param() statement are separated by commas. Remember that you don't use commas to separate the arguments you pass when you call the function. Also, the Param() statement needs to be the first statement in the function.

Typed parameters

Something else you might have noticed in this example is that we have specified that both the parameters have to be strings...

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