Chapter 2. PowerShell scripting overview
When you start using PowerShell’s scripting language, it’s easy to run into a number of gotchas and hurdles that you wouldn’t ordinarily see when you’re running commands. In this chapter, we’ll try to get those hurdles out of the way up front, so that you can start creating tools with fewer hassles.
2.1. What is PowerShell scripting?
From our perspective, PowerShell is first and foremost a command-line interface (CLI). That means you run commands and get immediate results. Like many good CLIs, PowerShell contains a scripting language, but using that language is optional. To make tools, we’ll definitely be using that language! The good news is that compared to languages like VBScript, Perl, PHP, and ...
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