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
[Link] 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 "[Link]" $[Link] To create an instance of a .Net Framework object. Parameters can be passed if required New-Object type <.Net Object> $d = New-Object -Type [Link] 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 ($i in Get-Childitem c:\windows) {$[Link]; $[Link]}
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:\[Link]" 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 [Link] Or use > to output script results to file .\test.ps1 > [Link]
Writing to an Html File
Use ConvertTo-Html and > $a = Get-Process $a | Convertto-Html -property Name,Path,Company > [Link]
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 [Link]
