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Lab- Scripting Sys Fund.docx

• Windows Powershell uses Cmdlets which are named accord to a verb-noun naming standard
• The Get-Command cmdlet gets all of the commands available on the system
• Get-Command file finds anything related to files
• Get-FileHash allows you to get the SHA256 hash of a file
• test-path allows you to check if a certain file exists at a particular location -You can create a script by
  • opening notepad a entering a cmdlet (EX: get-date)
  • save the file as a .ps1, which is an extension used for PowerShell scripts
  • run your script by having entering correct path associated to your script
  • if your already in the directory of the script type, ./"the cmdlet" (Ex: ./getdate)
• PowerShell can be used to scrape web pages