Windows PowerShell Best Practices

Index

A note on the digital index

A link in an index entry is displayed as the section title in which that entry appears. Because some sections have multiple index markers, it is not unusual for an entry to have several links to the same section. Clicking on any link will take you directly to the place in the text in which the marker appears.

Symbols

* (asterisk), as wildcard character, Discovering information in help

( ) (parentheses), in functions, Creating functions

; (semicolon), to separate commands on single line, Using command-line utilities

<# and #> for comment tag, Working with temporary folders

! SET keyword, to preface variable assignments, Working with trace level 2

` (backtick) character, for line continuation, Avoid end-of-line comments ...