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Running commands (cmdlets)

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Running commands (cmdlets)

- Now that we're ready to start using PowerShell I wanna show you what PowerShell can do. First of all, there are four different types of commands that PowerShell can run. See, a lot of people think that the only thing PowerShell can do is this thing called Cmdlets and we're gonna be talking a lot about Cmdlets but PowerShell, when you open it, it can actually run four different things. It can run Windows native commands. It can run something called Aliases. All of these I'm gonna demonstrate to you. It can run Script commands and when we get to Scripting things like the if command or the if statement or different loop commands it can run. It can also run this thing called Cmdlets. Now Cmdlets have a unique structure to them. This Verb-noun structure. But let's go back into Windows and let me demonstrate these to you and we'll talk a little bit more about Cmdlets and this Verb-noun structure. Before I show you Cmdlets let me just demonstrate that this can run Windows native commands…

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