From the course: Learning PowerShell for Windows Server Administration
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PowerShell cmdlet syntax
From the course: Learning PowerShell for Windows Server Administration
PowerShell cmdlet syntax
- [Instructor] We can really appreciate some of the advances that have been made with PowerShell when we take a look back at Microsoft's first command prompt environment, the old command interpreter. In this environment, you could run two things. You could run an internal command, one of the commands built into command.com or more recently cmd.exe and you could run a directory, or you could run an external command. Something that exists as a separate executable file outside of this DOS prompt environment. Say, for example, ipconfig. Ipconfig isn't one of the built-in commands. It's a separate executable file that sits in the Windows System32 folder. PowerShell offers a little bit more flexibility than just internal and external commands. If you think back to the first thing that we typed in PowerShell in this course, it wasn't a command at all. The first thing that we did was type $PSVersionTable and when we ran that expression, it showed us the contents of PSVersionTable. We're able…
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