A free book about PowerShell in Russian is available for download.

I can not share the joyful news about which my colleague Andrey Beshkov told in his blog. Unfortunately, he does not keep a blog on Habré, so let me tell you about this event for him :) I think the Habr audience will be very interesting and useful to hear about it.

Some chapters of the book:

- First impression of Windows PowerShell
- Extended output options: pipelines
- Introductory exercises with Windows PowerShell objects
- Work with processes
- Output to TXT, CSV or XML format files
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Download the book here

Full table of contents under the cut:

The first impression of Windows PowerShell ............................................. ..................five
Enhanced Output: Pipelines ........................................... ........... 7
Introductory exercises with Windows PowerShell objects ............................................ ...eight
Work with processes ............................................... ............................................eight
Output to TXT, CSV or XML format ....................................... ......................9
Color output ............................................... .................................................. ..ten
Check conditions using the if cmdlet ............................................ ................eleven
HTML output .............................................. ...............................................12
Work with files ............................................... ................................................15
Finding information about objects using Get-Member ... 16
Deleting files ... 18
Creating folders ................................................ .................................................nineteen
If you have time ... ............................................ ........................................... 21
Windows PowerShell as a random object processing machine ... 23
WMI objects ... 23
Working with .NET and XML objects ... 25
Working with COM objects ... 26
Work with message logs .............................................. ............................. 29
Scenario solutions to the exercises in this book .......................................... ............thirty
Examples for Windows PowerShell - from simple to complex ... 33
Theoretical principles of Windows PowerShell ... 35
Windows PowerShell - a brief introduction ... 35
Goals of developing Windows PowerShell ... 35
About text, text parsing and objects ... 35
New scripting language ... 36
Windows commands and utilities ... 37
Interactive environment ... 37
Scripting support ... 37
CMD, WScript or PowerShell? What to choose? ... 37
Windows PowerShell 1.0 ............................................... ....................................... 38
Security when using scripts ............................................. ............. 39