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Automating the world one-liner at a time…

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Windows PowerShell in Action

October 11, 2006 Oct 11, 2006 10/11/06
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Well folks, at long last, my book is almost done :-) Before it goes out for print, you can get electronic copies through Manning's early access program: http://www.manning.com/payette/  The early access program is a chance for readers to provide feedback on a book so the author can fix things.  As Jeffrey says - enjoy! -bruce...

Issues with Windows PowerShell syntax

July 23, 2006 Jul 23, 2006 07/23/06
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REI recently posted some comments/requests about Windows PowerShell syntax at: http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2006/04/25/583273.aspx#675133 Let's go through a few of the points. ...the syntax was just way too cryptic and unintuitive. Often it's even dangerous. Like this: #PowerShell's syntax causes dangerous problems generating ...

em dash, en dash, dash, dash, dash…

May 2, 2006 May 2, 2006 05/2/06
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Some people have noticed that you can paste examples out of Word documents directly into a PowerShell session. Given all of the typographic tricks that Word does, this is actually much harder than it sounds. Here’s what we do. There's a piece of code in the interpreter that takes each of the possible characters and maps it into the ...