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Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting

You're reading from   Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting Automate and manage your environment using PowerShell Core 6.0

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789536669
Length 626 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Chris Dent Chris Dent
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Exploring PowerShell Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER
2. Introduction to PowerShell 3. Modules and Snap-ins 4. Working with Objects in PowerShell 5. Operators 6. Section 2: Working with Data
7. Variables, Arrays, and Hashtables 8. Branching and Looping 9. Working with .NET 10. Strings, Numbers, and Dates 11. Regular Expressions 12. Files, Folders, and the Registry 13. Windows Management Instrumentation 14. HTML, XML, and JSON 15. Web Requests and Web Services 16. Section 3: Automating with PowerShell
17. Remoting and Remote Management 18. Asynchronous Processing 19. Section 4: Extending PowerShell
20. Scripts, Functions, and Filters 21. Parameters, Validation, and Dynamic Parameters 22. Classes and Enumerations 23. Building Modules 24. Testing 25. Error Handling 26. Other Books You May Enjoy

Defining parameter sets

A parameter set in PowerShell groups different parameters together. In some cases, this is used to change the output of a command; in others, it provides a different way of supplying a piece of information. For example, the output from the Get-Process command changes if the Module parameter or, to a lesser extent, the IncludeUserName parameter are supplied. The Get-ChildItem command also has two parameter sets: one that accepts a Path with wildcard support, and another that accepts a LiteralPath that does not support wildcards. That is, it has two different ways of supplying essentially the same information. Parameter sets are declared using the ParameterSetName property of the Parameter attribute.
The following example has two parameter sets; each parameter set contains a single parameter:

function Get-InputObject {
[CmdletBinding()]
param (
...
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