Many IT Pros, at least those from the Windows world, think regular expressions are hard, or don’t know why they might want to use them. Why bother learning and using them in your PowerShell scripting or even at a console prompt? In this course, Windows PowerShell and Regular Expressions, you will learn the key regular expression concepts and techniques that you can immediately put to use in PowerShell. You don’t need to know and learn everything about regular expressions, just enough to get started. First, you will discover the basic syntax to create a regular expression pattern. Next, you will learn how to use these patterns in PowerShell. Finally, you will explore how to incorporate regular expressions into your PowerShell scripting. When you are finished with this course, you should have a better understanding of how regular expressions work, how to build them, and how to use them in PowerShell to make you not only a better scripter, but also a better IT professional.
Author Name: Jeff Hicks
Author Description:
Jeffery Hicks is a veteran IT Pro with 30 years of experience, much of it spent as an IT infrastructure consultant specializing in Microsoft server technologies with an emphasis in automation and efficiency. He is a multi-year recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award. He works today as an independent author, teacher, and consultant. He has been creating Pluralsight content for over 10 years. Jeff has written for numerous online sites and print publications, and speaks frequently at technology confer… more

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• Introduction
  5mins
• What Is a Regular Expression and Why Should I Care?
  22mins
• Building Regular Expression Commands
  32mins
• Building Advanced Regular Expression Commands with the Regex Object
  35mins
• Parsing with PowerShell and Regular Expressions
  28mins
• Discovering More with PowerShell and Regular Expressions
  7mins