Introduction to PowerShell for Unix People by Powershell.org - HTML preview

1. About

Principal author: Matt Penny

This e-book is intended as a ‘Quick Start’ guide to PowerShell for people who already know Bash or one of the other Unix shells.

The book has 3 elements:

• an introductory chapter which covers some PowerShell concepts
• a summary list of PowerShell equivalents of Unix commands in one e-book chapter
• a detailed discussion of Powershell equivalents of Unix commands, organised in the alphabetical order of the unix command

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