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PowerShell Cheat Sheet

This document provides a cheat sheet of essential PowerShell commands. It summarizes commands for getting help, listing available cmdlets, viewing object properties and methods, setting execution policy, defining functions and variables, creating objects, writing to the console, capturing user input, passing arguments, looping structures, conditional statements, reading from and writing to files.

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PowerShell Cheat Sheet

This document provides a cheat sheet of essential PowerShell commands. It summarizes commands for getting help, listing available cmdlets, viewing object properties and methods, setting execution policy, defining functions and variables, creating objects, writing to the console, capturing user input, passing arguments, looping structures, conditional statements, reading from and writing to files.

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PowerShell Cheat Sheet

 
Essential Commands 
 
Setting Security Policy 
To get help on any cmdlet use get‐help  View and change execution policy with Get‐
Get-Help  Get-Service Execution and Set‐Execution policy 
 
To get all available cmdlets use get‐command  Get-Executionpolicy
Get-Command  
Set-Executionpolicy remotesigned
 
To get all properties and methods for an object use get‐member 
Get-Service   | Get-Member
 
 
To Execute Script 
 
 
powershell.exe –noexit &”c:\myscript.ps1”
  Functions
  Parameters separate by space. Return is 
  optional. 
Variables 
  Arrays  function sum ([int]$a,[int]$b)
Must start with $ 
  To initialise  {
$a   = 32 $a = 1,2,4,8 return $a + $b
Can be typed 
  To query  }
[int]$a = 32 $b = $a[3] sum 4 5
 
 
 
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 
  Capture User Input 
Variable Name 
  Use Read‐Host to get user input 
$a   $a = Read-Host “Enter your name”
or    Write-Host "Hello" $a
Write-Host   $a –foregroundcolor “green”
 
  Miscellaneous
  Line Break ` 
 
Passing Command Line Arguments Get-Process | Select-Object `
 
Passed to script with spaces  name, ID
 
myscript.ps1 server1 benp Comments # 
Accessed in script by $args array  # code here not executed
$servername = $args[0] Merging lines ; 
$username = $args[1] $a=1;$b=3;$c=9
Pipe the output to another command | 
Get-Service | Get-Member
Do While Loop 
  Do Until Loop
Can repeat a set of commands while a condition is met 
  Can repeat a set of commands until a condition is met 
$a=1    $a=1 
Do {$a; $a++} 
  Do {$a; $a++} 
While ($a –lt 10) 
  Until ($a –gt 10) 

For Loop  ForEach ‐ Loop Through Collection of Objects


Repeat the same steps a specific number of times  Loop through a collection of objects 
For ($a=1; $a –le 10; $a++) Foreach ($i in Get-Childitem c:\windows)
{$a} {$i.name; $i.creationtime}

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

Reading From a File  Writing to a Simple File 
Use Get‐Content to create an array of lines.  Then loop  Use Out‐File or > for a simple text file 
through array  $a = "Hello world"
$a = Get-Content "c:\servers.txt" $a | out-file test.txt
foreach ($i in $a) Or use > to output script results to file 
{$i} .\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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