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Running commands

- [Instructor] One of the features of PowerShell that makes first-time users love it so much is just how intuitive its syntax is. In a lot of other languages, commands to perform tasks are obscure, they're riddled with acronyms, and don't make it easy to understand what they do. PowerShell is different. PowerShell has a verb dash noun syntax. Every command starts with a verb that does something, followed by a dash, then a noun to perform that action on. For example, the Get-Process command. What do you think that does? It's pretty obvious, right? It gets all of the processes on a system. You'll see this in action when we get to the demo. If you're overwhelmed by PowerShell being this brand new thing and get intimidated, just don't. At its most basic, think of PowerShell as just a much, much better command prompt you've used in the past. All of your command line programs will still work, plus you get the power of thousands…

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