PowerShell is a shell program developed by Microsoft for task automation and configuration management. As is typical for a shell, it provides a command-line interpreter for interactive use and a script interpreter for automation via a language defined for it. Originally only for Windows, known as Windows PowerShell, it was made open-source and cross-platform on August 18, 2016, with the introduction of PowerShell Core. The former is built on the .NET Framework; the latter on .NET. Wikipedia
Created Year: 2006Designed by: Jeffrey Snover
Developed by: Microsoft
Operating systems: Arch Linux • CentOS • Debian • Fedora Linux • Microsoft Windows • Red Hat Enterprise Linux • Ubuntu • Windows Server • macOS • openSUSE
Implemented in: C# • PowerShell
Aliases: Windows PowerShell, PowerShell Core, PS, Power Shell, Monad Shell, Microsoft Shell, MSH, PWSH
Wikidata: Q840410
Influenced: Nushell
Influenced by: Control Language • C# • DIGITAL Command Language • KornShell • Perl • Python • SQL • Tcl
Programming paradigms: functional programming • imperative programming • object-oriented programming • procedural programming • reflective programming
Language types: command line interface language • interpreted language • scripting language
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- A Unix Person's Guide to PowerShell - The DevOps Collective Inc. (HTML)
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- Essential PowerShell - Krzysztof Kowalczyk, StackOverflow Contributors
- Layman’s Guide to PowerShell 2.0 remoting (PDF)
- Learn PowerShell Core 6.0 - David das Neves, Jan-Hendrik Peters (Packt account required)
- Learn PowerShell in Y Minutes
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- PowerShell 101: The No-Nonsense Beginner’s Guide to PowerShell - Mike F. Robbins (Leanpub account or valid email requested)
- PowerShell 2.0 – One CMDLET At A Time (PDF)
- PowerShell Notes for Professionals - Compiled from StackOverflow documentation (PDF)
- PowerShell Succinctly, Syncfusion (PDF, Kindle) (email address requested, not required)
- Secrets of PowerShell Remoting - The DevOps Collective Inc. (HTML)
- The Big Book of PowerShell Error Handling - The DevOps Collective Inc. (HTML)
- The Big Book of PowerShell Gotchas - The DevOps Collective Inc. (HTML)
- The Monad Manifesto - Annotated - The DevOps Collective Inc. (HTML)
- The PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit Manual for Summiteers - The DevOps Collective Inc. (HTML)
- Why PowerShell? - The DevOps Collective Inc. (HTML)
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