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Principal author: Matt Penny


This e-book is intended as a ‘Quick Start’ guide to PowerShell for people who already know Bash or one of the other Unix shells.

The book has 3 elements:

  • an introductory chapter which covers some PowerShell concepts

  • a summary list of PowerShell equivalents of Unix commands in one e-book chapter

  • a detailed discussion of Powershell equivalents of Unix commands, organised in the alphabetical order of the unix command


This guide is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. The authors encourage you to redistribute this file as widely as possible, but ask that you do not modify the document.

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