Conditional Statements
Often in scripting, some kind of decision must be made by comparing values before a script or set of commands continues.
Operators can provide a simple example of how conditional statements work, as shown here:
PS>if("userA" -eq "userA")>> {>> Write-Host "Equal">> }>> else>> {>> Write-Host "Not equal">> }>>EqualPS>$user="userB"PS>if("userA" -eq "$user")>> {>> Write-Host "Equal">> }>> else>> {>> Write-Host "Not equal">> }>>Not equalPS>
The preceding code provides a simple example and shows how interactive the PowerShell console can be. The >>
character is simply PowerShell informing the user that the commands entered are basically not complete, and more input is required.
A later example ...
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