Scribd
Upload
418 views

Powershell Cheat Sheet

This cheat sheet summarizes essential PowerShell commands for getting help, viewing and setting execution policy, executing scripts, working with functions, variables, arrays, constants, objects, writing to the console, capturing user input, loops, conditional statements, reading from and writing to files.

Uploaded by

Carlotta Jones-Ford
Copyright
© Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
418 views

Powershell Cheat Sheet

This cheat sheet summarizes essential PowerShell commands for getting help, viewing and setting execution policy, executing scripts, working with functions, variables, arrays, constants, objects, writing to the console, capturing user input, loops, conditional statements, reading from and writing to files.

Uploaded by

Carlotta Jones-Ford
Copyright
© Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 2

PowerShell Cheat Sheet

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 GetExecution and Set-Execution policy Get-Executionpolicy Set-Executionpolicy remotesigned

To Execute Script

powershell.exe noexit &c:\myscript.ps1

Functions Variables
Must start with $ $a = 32 Can be typed [int]$a = 32

Arrays
To initialise $a = 1,2,4,8 To query $b = $a[3]

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


Passed to script with spaces myscript.ps1 server1 benp Accessed in script by $args array $servername = $args[0] $username = $args[1] Line Break ` Get-Process | Select-Object ` name, ID Comments # # code here not executed Merging lines ; $a=1;$b=3;$c=9 Pipe the output to another command | Get-Service | Get-Member

Do While Loop
Can repeat a set of commands while a condition is met $a=1 Do {$a; $a++} While ($a lt 10) 1

Do Until Loop
Can repeat a set of commands until a condition is met $a=1 Do {$a; $a++} Until ($a gt 10)

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

ForEach - Loop Through Collection of Objects


Loop through a collection of objects Foreach ($i in Get-Childitem c:\windows) {$i.name; $i.creationtime}

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"}

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


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

Writing to a Simple File


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

You might also like