Powershell Basic Cheat Sheet

Variables

Importing, Exporting, Converting

Aliases for common commands

PowerShell Basic Cheat Sheet

$var = "string"

Assign variable

Export-CliXML

Import-CliXML

Gcm

Get-Command

$a,$b = 0 or $a,$b = 'a','b'

Assign multiple variables

ConvertTo-XML

ConvertTo-HTML

Foreach,%

Foreach-Object

PowerShell is a task based command line shell and scripting

$a,$b = $b,$a

Flip variables

Export-CSV

Import-CSV

Sort

Sort-Object

language. To run it, click Start, type PowerShell, run PowerShell ISE

or PowerShell as Administrator.

$var=[int]5

Strongly typed variable

ConvertTo-CSV

ConvertFrom-CSV

Where,?

Where-Object

Commands are written in verb-noun form, and named parameters

Diff,compare

Compare-Object

start with a dash.

Assignment, Logical, Comparison Operators

Flow Control

Dir, ls, gci

Get-ChildItem

Basics

=,+=,-=,++,--

Assign values to variable

If(){} Elseif(){ } Else{ }

Gi

Get-Item

Cmdlet

Commands built into shell written in .NET

-and,-or,-not,!

Connect expressions / statements

while(){}

Copy,cp,cpi

Copy-Item

Functions

Commands written in PowerShell language

-eq, -ne

Equal, not equal

For($i=0; $i -lt 10; $i++){}

Move,mv,mi

Move-Item

Parameter

Argument to a Cmdlet/Function/Script

-gt, -ge

Greater than, greater than or equal

Foreach($file in dir C:\){$file.name}

Del,rm

Remove-Item

Alias

Shortcut for a Cmdlet or Function

-lt, -le

Less than, less than or equal

1..10 | foreach{$_}

Rni,ren

Rename-Item

Scripts

Text files with .ps1 extension

-replace

“Hi” -replace “H”, “P”

Ft

Format-Table

Applications

Existing windows programs

Comments, Escape Characters

-match,-notmatch

Regular expression match

Fl

Format-List

Pipelines |

Pass objects Get-process word | Stop-Process

#Comment

Comment

-like,-notlike

Wildcard matching

Gcim

Get-CimInstance

Ctrl+c

Interrupt current command

<#comment#> Multiline Comment

-contains,-notcontains Check if value in array

Cat,gc,type

Get-Content

Left/right

Navigate editing cursor

"`"test`""

Escape char `

-in, -notin

Reverse of contains,notcontains.

Sc

Set-Content

Ctrl+left/right

Navigate a word at a time

`t

Tab

h,history,ghy

Get-History

Home / End

Move to start / end of line

Parameters

`n

New line

Ihy,r

Invoke-History

Up/down

Move up and down through history

-Confirm

Prompt whether to take action

`

Line continue

Gp

Get-ItemProperty

Insert

Toggles between insert/overwrite mode

-WhatIf

Displays what command would do

Sp

Set-ItemProperty

F7

Command history in a window

Cmdlets

Arrays, Objects

Pwd,gl

Get-Location

Tab / Shift-Tab

Command line completion

Get-EventLog

Get-WinEvent

$arr = "a", "b"

Array of strings

Gm

Get-Member

Help

Get-Date

$arr = @()

Empty array

Sls

Select-String

Get-Command

Get all commands

Start-Sleep

Compare-Object

$arr[5]

Sixth array element

Cd,chdir,sl

Set-Location

Get-Command -Module RGHS

Get all commands in RGHS module

Start-Job

Get-Credential

$arr[-3..-1]

Last three array elements

Cls,clear

Clear-Host

Get-Command Get-p*

Get all commands starting with get-p

Test-Connection New-PSSession

$arr[1,4+6..9]

Elements at index 1,4, 6-9

Cmdlets

Get-help get-process

Get help for command

Test-Path

Split-Path

$arr[1] += 200

Add to array item value

Set-Location

Get-Process | Get-Member

Get members of the object

Get-ADUser

Get-ADComputer

$z = $arA + $arB

Two arrays into single array

Get-Content

Get-Process| format-list -properties *

Get-Process as list with all properties

Get-History

New-ISESnippet

[pscustomobject]@{x=1;z=2} Create custom object

Add-Content

Get-WMIObject

Get-CimInstance

(Get-Date).Date

Date property of object

Set-Content

Writing output and reading input

Scripts

Out-File

"This displays a string"

String is written directly to output

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Bypass

Set execution policy to allow all scripts

Out-String

Write-Host "color" -ForegroundColor Red -NoNewLine

String with colors, no new line at end

."\\c-is-ts-91\c$\scripts\script.ps1"

Run Script.PS1 script in current scope

Copy-Item

$age = Read-host "Please enter your age"

Set $age variable to input from user

&"\\c-is-ts-91\c$\scripts\script.ps1"

Run Script.PS1 script in script scope

Remove-Item

$pwd = Read-host "Please enter your password" -asSecureString

Read in $pwd as secure string

.\Script.ps1

Run Script.ps1 script in script scope

Move-Item

Clear-Host

Clear console

$profile

Your personal profile that runs at launch

Set-Item

Example command: dir C:\users\example -recurse -File | ?{$_.LastWriteTime -gt [datetime]::Today} | Select LastWriteTime,CreationTime,Length,FullName | sort LastWriteTime -descending | ft -AutoSize

New-Item

This gets all files under C:\users\example, filters by lastwritetime today, only returns lastwritetime, creationtime, length and fullname, sorts by lastwritetime and outputs results in an autosized table