Learn PowerShell: Episode 1, The Basics
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- FUN FACT: By the end of this series, you'll be able to make your own graphical interface right from PowerShell!
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This is the start of a video series that will teach you everything you could need to know about PowerShell.
This video will introduce the basics of PowerShell and the fundamental ideas it is built upon, as well as some important commands that allow you to filter, sort and process information easily. Everything will be broken down so it's easy to understand and get going with PowerShell very quickly.
I find there are quite a lot of videos out there that focus on just the commands, but never on PowerShell itself, they give you a list of commands and say that you've learnt PowerShell, but with only knowledge of commands you'll find that you get stuck when it comes to doing more advanced things and you don't truly understand the intricacies of what's really going on when you run commands, what exactly different things are, how they're structured and so much more is missed out. You need to be very familiar with your environment and what's going on around you to be able to make the most of it, and this series makes sure you are.
Because this video series does both, mostly focusing on really teaching you PowerShell itself and how the whole system works like so many other video series fail to do, but while also introducing you to commands along the way as we go breaking apart PowerShell's system efficiently. And very soon in the series, you'll be able to find commands completely on your own without even searching anything up, allowing you to become very independent as you take advantage of the flexibility and capabilities PowerShell has.
As mentioned at the beginning of this description, by the end of this series you'll be able to make your own graphical app with buttons and the like right from PowerShell! Thanks to the deep knowledge you'll gain about how PowerShell really works and how the whole object system is structured inside. We'll go through creating an app as the final goal in the series, and really make the most out of what we've learnt to make some simple apps straight from the command line or a script file.
The way the series is structured starts here, at the introduction. This helps introduce the key central idea of objects (something that we will slowly dig deeper and deeper into each episode), help get you going with commands straight away, and we'll start doing some simple tasks to get using PowerShell to do things immediately. The next video takes yet another general look at PowerShell, teaching you how to discover your own commands and how PowerShell is structured inside and much more. From there we start to take a look at more specialized topics, homing in on objects, being the vastest and central thing of PowerShell. Learn all about objects and you've learnt PowerShell, and that's exactly what this series will do!
The video starts with the fundamental idea of objects that PowerShell is built upon. This idea is continually used throughout this series as, as will become clearer soon, everything ties into the object system and its capabilities.
This video introduces four very important commands that are used to filter, sort and select objects such that you can work with any set of objects and immediately extract useful and actionable data from it. It also explains how these commands function, and what the "$_" syntax is and how it gets used by these commands to allow their functionality.
Out of these four commands, the command "ForEach" is particularly torn apart, showing how it often gets used for two separate capabilities and how it can be used alongside "Measure" to get very useful information about a given set of objects.
Two examples that are explored in this video are getting all the processes that have CPU time above 20, as well as getting all of the processes with an ID above 4000 and calculated the average CPU time across them.
For anyone experienced with older ABMedia videos, this video also has a brand new intro :)
Chapters:
0:00 Getting Started
1:58 Objects
4:58 Pipeline
7:20 Measure
9:20 Where
14:48 Sort
17:48 ForEach
23:16 Putting It Together
Thanks for watching my video, before are some general ABMedia links if you are interested:
Website ► abco.live/
Discord ► abco.live/discord
The Discord server is a place to chat with the creator of this video, as well as anyone who contributed to its development and has helped support ABWorld over the years.
A huge thank you goes to @ndumiphotos (on Instagram) for the graphics used in the intro.
#learnpowershell #powershell #programming 
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Where were you all these days. I've been searching for you all over internet. The way you teach and explain is truly commendable!!
Thanks Alex, this is the best Powershell introduction video I've found on RUclips - well done!
One of the most underrated PowerShell tutorials out there. Thanks so much for this amazing series!
Such a excelent explanation. I don't ussually comment on videos but this video is just amazing. Thanks!
Thank you!
Thank you for producing the best PowerShell tutorial on RUclips. I like how you actually explain things rather than just giving some random examples. I looked at a few other tutorials and none of them mentioned anything about objects, which you got into by the second minute. Well done.
You're welcome! That's what I aimed to do, so I'm glad it delivers!
Just the first video alone deserves 100K. Thanks man you're a good tutor.
Thanks! Glad you liked it - it's not too far off 100K!
Episode 2 is coming very soon, stay tuned!
EDIT: And Episode 2 is out! Enjoy!
This is so useful. You're really good at teaching, like really damn good. I would love it if you could do some more videos about the same or unrelated stuff, whatever it is.
Thanks! I'm glad you liked it! The PowerShell series is finished so I do plan to make more videos on other topics, just been really busy!
Graphical illustrations are a nice touch, well done.
Wonderful. One of the best video about PS for beginners, thank you 🙏
RUclips really needs to push those kind of content to the audience. It’s very neat and process the last PS version.
Excellent start on PowerShell. Thank you.
been waiting for such tutorials for a long time!
the way you explain is perfect! keep it up!
I'm really happy to hear that!
Excellently explained demonstration. I loved the visualizations of the object blocks as they moved through he pipeline. Easily one of the best tutorial videos I've found. Looking forward to the rest of the videos in this series. I hope they are all equally as good!
Thanks! Yes, I keep the visualisations going all throughout the series. Technically in the last two episodes they get even better as I moved software to something much more powerful then. Hopefully you find the rest just as useful!
The best powershell videos I've seen so far
Thank you very much for your work
Congratulations!
“And oh, oh god. Let’s just put that away” hilarious
This is a great tutorial it teaches you things that are immediatly applicable!
I am glad I found this video. Your way of explanation and demonstration is very easy to understand unlike many other videos I watched where one does everything very quickly and does not explain every command, parameter, syntax one uses. Thank you
You're welcome! Glad you've found it helpful!
legit best and most interesting pwsh beginner video ive ever seen. like, wow. thank you
Thank you! Glad you liked it!
Yess Ive Been Waiting For This
Thank you for this great tutorial. Very good explanation, very good examples and it's all understandable. Best regards from Albania
The Best and the only tutorial you'll ever need. Thank you for the excellent visuals and explanations.
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
Most commentators have said it better than me already, but it would not hurt to hear it from me as well. What is that? That this is one of the most amazing tutorial videos outhere, that I have witnessed for a long time. A lot of kudos to the creator!!!
Thanks!! Glad you enjoy it. And there's 10 whole other episodes too
This is an Outstanding video! Thanks for all your work. The tutorial at the end was awesome! Well made, looking forward to the rest of the playlist
Thanks! I hope you do enjoy the rest!
Really great introduction! Thanks for this, very helpful!
Thanks, glad to hear you enjoyed it!
This is excellent and at a good pace. Thank you!
Thank you!
Bro, keep it up! The first episode was lit, can’t wait to see every single one of them!
I mean... I've already created another 8 of them and I think I've kept the quality up!
@@ABCo-ABMedia haha, yeah saw that. 😂
Awesome PowerShell Teacher, Awesome content and explanations, Awesome Human being,Sir. Thank you for your generosity,you are Awesome. Salutations from France.
You're welcome! Glad you're enjoying it
Just started learning the PowerShell. This series looks promising to me so I will finish all episodes. Just finished this one and I am very happy with the content and the teaching style. Thank you for your great effort!!
Bro, you really have a gift for teaching. Keep it up! I'm subscribed and watchin
Wow, thanks a lot! Glad to hear you thought it was helpful!
Amazing teaching style. Thanks.
Ah, just what I needed! Straight into the central concepts, so clearly illustrated. Thanks a million.
Glad to hear you like it! :)
Thank you, the visualisations help a lot.
The is a good helpful video. I've been using powershell for over 10 years, but not every day. I always find returning to powershell painful. They "obvious" syntax is never obvious, while I find in bash and windows cmd it is obvious or at least seems more straight forward. I know the benefits of piping objects is much more powerful than piping text, so I'm always happy to return to powershell.
It definitely does take some "getting used to", for sure
nice. Well explained and great examples
This is dope. Learned a lot here :)
Hey man, I need to say something to you. You are fucking good! congratulations, this is the best tutorial I have ever seen. The learning method works perfectly. It is just amazing. Be proud of yourself.
Absolutely fantastic!!
I work in an IT role,dealing in area's including AzureAD, Sharepooint, M365 & Exchange, I have patchy knowledge due to the previous roles I have had and have tried to look in to Powershell a couple of times and think that is why I couldn't get my head around it.
With this first lesson, I now have an understanding of the basics. I have never heard/seen or been taught this way previously. I can now look at a script and have some idea of whats going on. The amount of times I have seen " $_. " in Powershell scipts and just wondered what that did!!
Thank you, love your method of explaining/teaching exactly what my way of learning requires.
That's exactly what I hope to achieve! I'm glad it's helping fill in your knowledge and give you that base understanding of what's really going on, there's a bunch more videos as part of the series too, hopefully they'll also help fill in your knowledge a little more too!
Wow this is the greatest ever learning that I got. Thanks a lot. Can you keep it going?? I need it.
There's 8 episodes so far! So yes, I can and I am keeping it going :P
One of the Best course!!! I have issue when it comes to understanding one topic but this one is something else
What do you mean?
i mean this iso great
Excellent work
Sir, thanks. I can't give you anything else for helping me. You are awesome.
Just FYI: Taking five minutes to research bash ps command it is just the format of the command is different. ps is 'Process Status' cmd followed by -e for entire system and o for format which specifies the processes (among other functions) wanted which follow, pid, ppid, cmd, %mem, %cpu. The pipe which works the same as PowerShell, then awk which is a Unix/Linux pattern searching command for text/files...etc followed by the defined value(s) to look for, %NE which is Not Equal > greater than 20. WARNING: The syntax, formatting and the command(s) themselves can change depending on the myriad versions of Unix or Linus being run.
Only my first video, but very well done and informative!
Glad you found it informative! Since you're commenting on a section in the middle of the video that lasts less than 5 seconds, the timestamp (15:30) probably would've been helpful for anybody looking in the comment section.
I'm honestly not sure what point you're even making here though... _Are_ you making one? It sounds like you're just stating (mostly correct) information about the Bash command out of nowhere, which, I mean, I support you it's just, seems a bit random to me 😅.
I really appreciate your work, Excellent content
Thanks a lot!
I can hardly encourage you to play it on 1.5 speed. Very nicely explained. Thank you
I was looking for a best power shell tutorial for beginners for long time and now i just found it. I’m looking forward more power shell videos. Thanks Mate.
Well there's also an Episode 2 and Episode 3 already out, with more on the way after that!
Fantastically clear and easy to understand. Thank you for your time - it's massively appreciated.
Thank you, happy to hear it!
Excellent Tutorial!!
Excellent tutorial series. SQL and Linux/Unix should be taught like this, hint hint!
This is way too good than any other tutorial I have checked soo far. thanks!
I like your teaching style, thanks dude!
You're welcome, glad you like it!
Congratulations , excellent content !
Thanks a lot!
really neat presentation
you got a new subscriber today... I'm gonna own the next 10 videos over the next 10 days!!!
Did you?
Ayo man, I really like your teaching style, the graphics explaining exactly what is happening and that you gave us the task to figure out how to use the learned things.
Really appreciate your videos 🙏
Thanks a lot! I hope the series helps!
@@ABCo-ABMedia It really does, it's a great supplement for everyone who's learning about IT, and I will definitely recommend you to my study partners
And, you can flex on "normies" , who don't know that their Windows Computer can do such fancy things in the Powershell 😏
Very helpful, thankyou!
Glad you found it helpful so far
You are a terrific teacher
Thank you! I hope you enjoy the rest of the series
Very nice and neat explanation...
Thanks, I'm glad you think so.
Huge thanks!! Your technique is extremely good! Unfortunately, programming syntax looks like a tangled ball of string to new learners - but you help your audience quickly understand what's "simple" vs "hard" in the expression. For example, when you explained how the $_. works! Also, you begin teaching really powerful expressions like Where, Measure, Sort and Foreach instead of treating those as advanced concepts to be put off until much later. These tools are fundamental to using PS and your teaching skills and presentation style/animations quickly simplify them and make them immediately useful to the new user. Thanks again!
You're welcome, very glad you're enjoying the series!
This PowerShell tutorial is a total game-changer! You explain things so well, even a complete PowerShell dunce like me (yes, that's me!) can finally understand what's going on. Seriously, you're like a PowerShell whisperer, translating this whole magic system into plain English. I gotta say, if all teachers were this amazing, the world would be overflowing with computer wizards. Thanks for making me feel a little less like a tech caveman!
Hahaha thank you for the kind words! And wow that comment, uh, _upgraded_ quite a bit after the edits😂
@@ABCo-ABMedia I've watched countless RUclips videos on PowerShell-some are informative and help grasp the concept, while others are just a waste of time. You, however, really deserve an amazing comment, not just a plain one. I hope you keep making more videos like this!
@@benmundackal13 Well... There's 10 more of them in this series!
@@ABCo-ABMedia I've been binge-watching all your videos-I'm on the fifth one now! Seriously, you should branch out and make videos on different subjects too. How about tackling "prompt engineering" next?
@@benmundackal13 I do plan on returning back to making programming content! Just been very busy with other projects - I don't know the things I do only to teach them of course!
This is an excellent explanation of the basics of PS. I work as an IT Admin for a healthcare company, I want to, one day, become an IT Sys Admin, but I've never learned PS because I'm not too fond of programming & scripting languages. This video gave me the basics of what I need to know to finally become that Sys Admin that I've always wanted to become. I'm going to watch this whole series on PS. You should maybe think about becoming a teacher on Udemy because this video is much better than all of the PS videos on Udemy.
That's awesome!! I hope you do get to check out the whole series and hope it's helpful
Excellent.
Thanks!
Thank you
Thanks a lot fot this nice and informative videos. Please upload more about scripting! I subscribed
Hey! There's about 6 more episodes in the series so far, so plenty more to watch beyond this episode :P And episode _8_ will be coming out in just a day so there's that too!
@@ABCo-ABMedia Yes i saw it. i will watch them all bro
You are the best !!
Thanks :)
excellent
job
Thanks
a
lot
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You make this stuff very understandable - nice 👍
you deserve much higher views count!
Thanks!
I have been searching the interwebs all day to find the right PS tutorial for me. Some went too quickly, some too slow and drawn out where it was excruciatingly boring to keep up. Your videos were right on the money. I really appreciate how you broke down what each item was doing and emphasized it in a practical manner. Subbed and will continue the series.
Awesome! Hope you find the rest of the series just as enjoyable!
Where have you been all my life, finally I get the basics $_.
Glad to hear it! :) Hopefully you'll be able to check out the rest of the series too!
Nice intro video 👍🏻
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it
hey man just wanted to thank you for this amazing tutorial, thank you very much for sharing your knowledge in such a greate and understable way!!
I came here through some thing i made, a request in chat to play stuf from youtube :D. But just a lot of copy paste and try and fail hehe. I have to learn to go through content better with ifs and putting stuf into a var. Random stuf, which can reduce 100 lines to 10 maybe ;p. So i'll be looking too. I like the way you do it, so i hope you don't quit :)
The only downside is i don't know how to get text from another window with powershell, am using a screen scanner for it which is a bit unhandy but ok.
If statements and variables are coming soon in the series. Variables will be in the third episode if statements possibly in the very last video (although that has not been fully decided yet)
@@ABCo-ABMedia Do whatever order you think is best, haha :). I made the youtube request thing already, with uiautomation. But still i don't have a clue almost what i'm doing :). I didn't see replies earlier, guess i was kind of busy. Am still here as newbie, like to know what i'm doing so i'll be watching.
good tutorial dude :)
Thanks :)
Sir, you videos are great.. Finally I got the content what I am looking for. I wish you to complete the series of powershell scripting which will be beneficiary to the people like me.
I absolutely want to finish the series as soon as I can! It may take me a while to get around to finishing Episode 9 though, as I've recently built up this huge to-do list of other things I need to get done first, but rest assured, I have not forgotten about it and will finish this series - there's only 2 episode left to go!
10/10
Thanks lol
This is the first time in my whole life to see somebody trolling Linux 😂😂
Hahaha, only praising the _theory_ of what PowerShell is meant to be! Honestly in practice PowerShell's..... Well, it's not how I would make it, let's put it like that.
@@ABCo-ABMedia I came from Linux background, but I'm literally astonished by the way PowerShell works with objects not just text. I admit it, it's very useful.
I'm very grateful to you by the way 🥰
I have a question. I passed my az-900 today with an 873; And I was wondering should I learn regular PowerShell or PowerShell for Azure? what do you think would be a better base in your opinion. Thank you So much for your videos and time.
Well, all the concepts in this series _technically_ apply to PowerShell for Azure. Only thing about this series is as you start to get a lot further in they could start to apply "less" in places when used for the specific purpose
Awesome video, thank you. very well explained!
Thoughts on ChatGPT?
cant find the link you mentioned in the video for powershell
Ah yeah it isn't actually "linked below", I'll add it now, but you can just type it out from the video at the top, it's not that long: github.com/powershell/powershell
Might have learned something (❁´◡`❁)!
I certainly hope you did!
I don’t know anything about common line. where can I learn about it?
To be fair, I kind of tell you most things about command lines anyway throughout the series. Also, yes, command line, no common line (there's subtitles if you need them). I don't know how well it'll go for you though, guess you'll just have to try
🍀
Great tutorial.. yet you shouldn't use aliases. It's bad practice at this point.
I do mention that later on - that when writing _scripts_ especially you should try to avoid them. But if you're just typing commands in the command-line to quickly get something done, which is all this video covers here I don't really feel it matters, you don't really need to maintain the command you just wrote
$._CPU is not a recognized cmdlt
Hm?
Sup King Charles :)
I have no idea what this is supposed to mean :P
@@ABCo-ABMedia Haha. I like the way you talk.
@@ABCo-ABMedia Classy talk, smart , ordered and nice.
Im ganna hack the matrix soon!
Yeah... Good luck with that!
@@ABCo-ABMedia im pro
As a c# programmer ITS Look Like linq
Yes, "Where" and "ForEach" are exactly like .Where and .Select respectively
Man I would have loved to watch this, but I can't deal with the obvious
I don't think that's fair. The series has to start somewhere and I *definitely* wouldn't call a lot of the concepts explained in this episode as such as just "obvious" to every viewer. It's better I go over a few things the viewer _may_ already know, that can then further _solidify_ those concepts in their head, than skip over a bunch of stuff and leave many lost.
There are many different series out there and the whole reason I made this one is for people who _don't_ know tons of stuff at the beginning; if you do, there are other series better suited for that! If it's not for you, then it's not for you. And that's completely fine!
in french please :D
Never rely on a Microsoft backed service or product - it will only result in you or your business getting hacked. It's what they do...
Did you come here just to say that? You do know that .NET and PowerShell are both open-source, and have huge community run backing, right? MS has like _a_ team of employees working on them, who are just everyday developers, and then everything else is the community
You do know that PS is, well, just a command-line interface to interact with .NET - where is the room to "get your business hacked" there?
And you do know that while Microsoft is certainly many things their security isn't exactly the thing I'd call lacking about them.
Man, the internet really has given every idiot a megaphone, hasn't it.
Get-Process | where {$_. Id -gt "4000"} | foreach{$_. CPU} | measure -Average??
i tried running ls | where { $_.Extension -eq '.txt' } but couldnt work
why?
What do you mean "couldn't work", what happened? Did it give an error, if so, _what_ error?