Professional Windows® PowerShell

4.6. Summary

This chapter showed you the two parsing modes that Windows PowerShell uses:

• Expression mode

• Command mode

You also saw examples of using the get-process cmdlet to explore running processes on a Windows machine and examples of using the get-service cmdlet to explore services.

The chapter discussed convenience features — aliases and Tab completion — that make it easier and faster to enter commands at the Windows PowerShell command line.

Pipelines were described, as well as how you can filter (using the where-object cmdlet), sort (using the sort-object cmdlet), and group objects (using the group-object cmdlet) in a Windows PowerShell pipeline.