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PowerShell Cheat Sheet

PowerShell Cheat provides essential commands for getting help, executing scripts, working with variables, arrays, objects, control flow, and input/output in 3 sentences: It outlines basic commands for getting help on cmdlets, viewing available cmdlets, and getting member information for objects, and shows how to view and set the execution policy, execute scripts, define functions and variables, create arrays and objects, use control structures like if/else and loops, capture user input, and read from and write output to files in different formats.

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PowerShell Cheat Sheet

PowerShell Cheat provides essential commands for getting help, executing scripts, working with variables, arrays, objects, control flow, and input/output in 3 sentences: It outlines basic commands for getting help on cmdlets, viewing available cmdlets, and getting member information for objects, and shows how to view and set the execution policy, execute scripts, define functions and variables, create arrays and objects, use control structures like if/else and loops, capture user input, and read from and write output to files in different formats.

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PowerShell Cheat

Essential Commands
To get help on any cmdlet use get-help
Get-Help Get-Service
To get all available cmdlets use get-command
Get-Command
To get all properties and methods for an object use
get-member
Get-Service | Get-Member

Setting Security Policy


View and change execution policy
with Get-Execution and Set-Execution
policy
Get-Executionpolicy
Set-Executionpolicy remotesigned

To Execute Script

powershell.exe noexit
&c:\myscript.ps1

Functions

Variables

Arrays

Must start
with $
$a = 32
Can be typed

To initialise
$a =
1,2,4,8
To query

Parameters separate by space.


Return is optional.
function sum ([int]$a,[int]
$b)
{
return $a + $b
}

Constants
Created without $
Set-Variable name b value 3.142 option constant
Referenced with $
$b

Creating Objects
To create an instance of a com object
New-Object -comobject <ProgID>
$a = New-Object comobject "wscript.network"
$a.username
To create an instance of a .Net Framework object. Parameters can be
passed if required
New-Object type <.Net Object>
$d = New-Object -Type System.DateTime 2006,12,25
$d.get_DayOfWeek()

Writing to Console
Variable Name
$a
or
Write-Host $a foregroundcolor green

Capture User Input


Use Read-Host to get user input
$a = Read-Host Enter your name
Write-Host "Hello" $a

Miscellaneous
Passing Command Line
Arguments
to script
DoPassed
While
Loopwith spaces

benp
Canmyscript.ps1
repeat a set ofserver1
commands
while a
Accessed
in
script
by
$args
array
condition is met
$servername = $args[0]
$a=1
Do {$a; $a++}
While ($a lt 10)

Line Break `
Get-Process | Select-Object `
name, ID
Comments #
Do
Until
Loop
# code
here
not executed
Can
repeat
a
Merging linesset
; of commands until a
condition
is met
$a=1;$b=3;$c=9
$a=1
Pipe the output to another
Do
{$a; $a++}
command
|
Until
($a gt 10)
Get-Service
| Get-Member

For Loop
Repeat the same steps a specific
number of times
For ($a=1; $a le 10; $a++)
{$a}

If Statement
Run a specific set of code given specific
conditions
$a = "white"
if ($a -eq "red")
{"The colour is red"}
elseif ($a -eq "white")
{"The colour is white"}
else
{"Another colour"}

ForEach - Loop Through


Collection of Objects
Loop through a collection of objects
Foreach ($i in Get-Childitem c:\windows)

Switch Statement
Another method to run a specific set of
code given specific conditions
$a = "red"
switch ($a)
{
"red" {"The colour is red"}
"white"{"The colour is white"}
default{"Another colour"}
}

Reading From a File

Writing to a Simple File

Use Get-Content to create an array of lines.


Then loop through array
$a = Get-Content "c:\servers.txt"
foreach ($i in $a)
{$i}

Use Out-File or > for a simple text file


$a = "Hello world"
$a | out-file test.txt
Or use > to output script results to file
.\test.ps1 > test.txt

Writing to an Html File


Use ConvertTo-Html and >
$a = Get-Process
$a | Convertto-Html -property Name,Path,Company >
test.htm

Writing to a CSV File


Use Export-Csv and Select-Object to filter output
$a = Get-Process
$a| Select-Object Name,Path,Company | Export-Csv -path test.csv

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