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Cross-platform shell based on .NET technology
PowerShell is a shell program developed by Microsoft for task automation and configuration management. As is typical for a shell, it provides a command-line
PowerShell
Method used for display options on video text terminals
terminal-based software to use the Windows Console. Windows PowerShell 5.1 enabled this by default, and PowerShell 6 made it possible to embed the necessary ESC character
ANSI_escape_code
American multinational technology company
reliant on Intel's CPU architecture. On January 12, Microsoft released PowerShell Core 6.0 for the macOS and Linux operating systems. In February 2018,
Microsoft
Device file that discards all data written to it
NT), NIL: on Amiga operating systems, and NL: on OpenVMS. In Windows Powershell, the equivalent is $null. It provides no data to any process that reads
Null_device
Command in various command line shells
shells such as COMMAND.COM, cmd.exe, Bash, qshell, 4DOS/4NT, Windows PowerShell, Singularity shell, Python, MATLAB and GNU Octave. It provides online
Help_(command)
Computer application of Microsoft Windows
infrastructure is the basis for the Windows PowerShell scheduled jobs feature introduced with PowerShell v3. Task Scheduler can be compared to cron or
Windows_Task_Scheduler
Means of entering commands to software
processing. In November 2006, Microsoft released version 1.0 of Windows PowerShell (formerly codenamed Monad), which combined features of traditional Unix
Command-line_interface
Shell command that copies standard input to standard output and to one or more files
Unix-like systems, OS-9, DOS (e.g. 4DOS, FreeDOS), Windows (e.g. 4NT, PowerShell, UnxUtils), ReactOS and IBM i. The Linux version was written by Mike Parker
Tee_(command)
Software development collaboration platform
projects and development tools such as .NET Core, Chakra Core, MSBuild, PowerShell, PowerToys, Visual Studio Code, Windows Calculator, Windows Terminal and
GitHub
Suite of office software
VBScript Visual Basic C# C/AL a.k.a. Navision Attain F# MVPL Power Fx PowerShell Q# Transact-SQL TypeScript Visual J++ Visual J# Web properties Azure Bing
Microsoft_Office
Web platform part of Microsoft 365
multiple command line or PowerShell utilities available to ease administration. Microsoft also provides an official PowerShell module for cloud, as well
SharePoint
Free URL data transfer client software
library that comes with a command line interface PowerShell – the iwr (Invoke-WebRequest) Windows PowerShell had functionality similar to curl; class Web-client
CURL
Standard for computer data connections
Microsoft Windows, the device can wait a set amount of time, then open PowerShell and download a malware script. The attack is called a BadUSB attack. Another
USB
PowerCLI is a PowerShell-based command-line interface for managing VMware vSphere. VMware describes PowerCLI as "a powerful command-line tool that lets
PowerCLI
Indian-American business executive (born 1967)
VBScript Visual Basic C# C/AL a.k.a. Navision Attain F# MVPL Power Fx PowerShell Q# Transact-SQL TypeScript Visual J++ Visual J# Web properties Azure Bing
Satya_Nadella
Windows package manager software
on Microsoft Windows. It uses the NuGet packaging infrastructure and PowerShell to simplify the process of downloading and installing software. The name
Chocolatey
Version of Windows Server, released in 2016
IP address to backend applications IIS 10: Support for HTTP/2 Windows PowerShell 5.1 Windows Server Containers DHCP: As Network Access Protection was deprecated
Windows_Server_2016
variable). Bash, zsh, and fish have completion for all variable names. PowerShell has completions for environment variable names, shell variable names and
Comparison_of_command_shells
Data center management method
2016). "DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, and PowerShell DSC: The Introduction". PowerShell Magazine. PowerShell Magazine. Retrieved 11 January 2016. "Introducing
Infrastructure_as_code
Linux distribution developed by Canonical
September 2025. Retrieved 24 January 2025. sdwheeler. "PowerShell Remoting Over SSH - PowerShell". learn.microsoft.com. Retrieved 18 July 2026. Ubuntu
Ubuntu
Database for Microsoft Windows
VBScript or JScript together with CScript, WMI or WMIC.exe and Windows PowerShell. Registry permissions can be manipulated through the command line using
Windows_Registry
Terminal emulator for Windows 10 and later
command-line app in a separate tab. It is preconfigured to run Command Prompt, PowerShell, Windows Subsystem for Linux, Azure Cloud Shell Connector, and will add
Windows_Terminal
Windows interface for monitoring and notification
Task Force (DMTF). WMI allows scripting languages (such as VBScript or PowerShell) to manage Microsoft Windows personal computers and servers, both locally
Windows Management Instrumentation
Windows_Management_Instrumentation
Typographical symbol (@)
echoing but prevents the command line itself from being echoed. In Windows PowerShell, @ is used as array operator for array and hash table literals and for
At_sign
Period when a computer system is available
variety of application programming interfaces, including VBScript or PowerShell. Microsoft formerly provided a downloadable utility called Uptime.exe
Uptime
American software architect, the inventor of PowerShell
chief architect of Microsoft Management Console (MMC) and the inventor of PowerShell, an object-based scripting language and command line shell for system
Jeffrey_Snover
Software feature
edu. "Index of /gnu/bash". ftp.swin.edu.au. "The PowerShell Guy". thepowershellguy.com. "The PowerShell Guy". thepowershellguy.com. "Simon Peyton Jones
Command-line_completion
List of programming languages types and the languages that meet its description
DIGITAL Command Language CLI for OpenVMS EXEC 2 Expect fish Nushell Windows PowerShell rc Rexx TACL (programming language) These are languages typically processed
List of programming languages by type
List_of_programming_languages_by_type
Component of the Microsoft Windows operating system
Windows Event log service. C:\>sc query eventlog The Microsoft.PowerShell.Management PowerShell module (included with Windows) has several cmdlets which can
Windows_service
Subscription services offered by Microsoft
Federation Services. More advanced setup and features requires the use of PowerShell scripts. Exchange Server, a mail and calendaring server. SharePoint is
Microsoft_365
Configuration interface of Windows 8 or later
app initially exposed a very small portion of Windows Control Panel (Powershell)'s functionality. Over time, however, it has become the sole user interface
Settings_(Windows)
Type of software test
Sheetal Guttigoli. p. 40. GGKEY:JH61NP21TXJ. PowerShell Magazine, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, and PowerShell DSC: The Introduction, by Ravikanth C, January
Smoke_testing_(software)
Open-source software platform for remote configuring and managing computers
remote connections via SSH or Windows Remote Management which allows PowerShell execution. The Ansible control node runs on most Unix-like systems that
Ansible_(software)
2009 Microsoft operating system version
Windows Management Framework 5.0 includes updates to Windows PowerShell 5.0, Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC), Windows Remote Management
Windows_7
Integrated development environment from Microsoft
UI. This terminal hosts any shell installed on the system—Bash, Zsh, PowerShell, Fish, Git Bash, WSL, etc.—and detects available profiles automatically
Visual_Studio_Code
Software development kit by Microsoft
Starting with Windows Vista, Platform SDK, as well as the SDKs for Windows PowerShell, .NET Framework, Microsoft Tablet PC, and the Windows Media platform were
Microsoft_Windows_SDK
Character used to start an escape sequence
separator; therefore, it generally cannot be used as an escape character. PowerShell uses backtick ( ` ) instead. For example, the following command: PS C:\>
Escape_character
System to identify resources on a network
Swati (2017-03-06). "New Fileless Malware Uses DNS Queries To Receive PowerShell Commands". The Hacker News. Retrieved 2024-12-11. Brumaghin, Edmund (2017-03-02)
Domain_Name_System
Typographical mark (`) (Freestanding grave accent)
variants. Pico: The backtick indicates comments in the programming language. PowerShell: The backtick is used as the escape character. For example, a newline
Backtick
Binary operator in computer programming
PHP since version 7.0.0, Perl since version 5.10 as logical defined-or, PowerShell since 7.0.0, and Swift as nil-coalescing operator. It is most commonly
Null_coalescing_operator
Hosted hypervisor for Windows and Linux
workflows, or converting workflows into Powershell cmdlets and modules. VIX is VMware's addition to Microsoft's Powershell for automation of the VMware Player
VMware_Workstation
Feature of Unix shells and some programming languages
programming languages as well, including Perl, PHP, Ruby and Microsoft's Powershell under Windows. It also appears in Microsoft's CMD.EXE in the FOR command
Command_substitution
Directory entry (in a directory-based file system) that associates a name with a file
of PowerShell To interrogate a file for its hard links, end-users can use: The fsutil utility The Get-Item and Get-ChildItem cmdlets of PowerShell. These
Hard_link
Mathematical operation with only one operand
Logical negation: !$x Simple expansion: $x Complex expansion: ${#x} In the PowerShell, the following operators are unary: Increment: ++$x, $x++ Decrement: --$x
Unary_operation
Direct interface to an operating system
Protocol can be used to provide GUI remote access, since Windows Vista, PowerShell Remote, since Windows 10 build 1809 SSH can also be used for text-based
Shell_(computing)
2015 Microsoft operating system version
"Bash for Windows: Why it's awesome and what it means for PowerShell". Windows PowerShell Blog. Microsoft. Archived from the original on April 2, 2016
Windows_10
Computer providing a central resource or service
conducted via various methods including Microsoft Management Console (MMC), PowerShell, SSH and browser-based out-of-band management systems such as Dell's iDRAC
Server_(computing)
Malicious software used in ransom demands
toward LNK files with self-contained Microsoft Windows PowerShell scripts. In 2016, PowerShell was found to be involved in nearly 40% of endpoint security
Ransomware
Text that identifies an item in a computer file system
areas of Windows do accept or understand Unix-style slashes also, such as PowerShell. The following table describes the syntax of paths in notable operating
Path_(computing)
TLS extension to serve multiple HTTPS sites
2023. "How to disable TLS Encrypted ClientHello in Google Chrome using PowerShell". Chaser Systems Ltd. 9 October 2023. "Feature: TLS Encrypted Client Hello
Server_Name_Indication
USB drive software
from Microsoft's servers. This ISO download feature is available only if PowerShell 3.0 or later is installed, and 'Check for updates' is enabled in the program's
Rufus_(software)
User-definable variable associated with each running process in many operating systems
by giving the prefix as the sole argument to the command. In Windows PowerShell, the user may type the following: "$Env:HomeDrive$Env:HomePath" or one
Environment_variable
server 5985 Yes Windows PowerShell Default psSession Port Windows Remote Management Service (WinRM-HTTP) 5986 Yes Windows PowerShell Default psSession Port
List of TCP and UDP port numbers
List_of_TCP_and_UDP_port_numbers
Variable that represents an argument to a function
[citation needed] Common Lisp, Fortran 90, Python, Ruby, Tcl, and Windows PowerShell[citation needed] allow for a default argument to be explicitly or implicitly
Parameter (computer programming)
Parameter_(computer_programming)
Unicode character
contains only ASCII. Windows PowerShell (up to 5.1) will add a BOM when it saves UTF-8 XML documents. However, PowerShell Core 6 has added a -Encoding
Byte_order_mark
Pseudorandom number generator file in Unix-like operating systems
2012-02-22. Retrieved 2013-07-03. "Get-SecureRandom (Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility) - PowerShell". learn.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2024-06-16. Biege, Thomas
/dev/random
Shell commands to save and restore the working directory
available as builtin commands in many shells, such as Bash, Command Prompt, PowerShell, C shell, tcsh, 4DOS, Hamilton C shell, KornShell, and FreeCOM. The stack
Pushd_and_popd
List of mascots for computer hardware, software, and concepts
Retrieved 9 April 2025. Wheeler, Sean (17 September 2021). "PowerShell Digital Art - PowerShell | Microsoft Docs". Microsoft Docs. Archived from the original
List_of_computing_mascots
Programming language for automation scripts
language; also used as an extension language for various applications PowerShell, for scripting Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux Python, general-purpose
Scripting_language
Conversion process for computer data
compiler for types whose stored properties are also Decodable or Encodable. PowerShell implements serialization through the built-in cmdlet Export-CliXML. Export-CliXML
Serialization
Software cloud service tool
Azure AD PowerShell module allows administrators granular control over synchronization behaviors. To begin working with the Azure AD PowerShell module it
Microsoft_Entra_Connect
2002 – Scratch 2003 – Groovy 2003 – Scala 2005 – F# 2005 – Haxe 2006 – PowerShell 2007 – Clojure 2008 – Nim 2009 – Go Logos Programming language evolution
History of programming languages
History_of_programming_languages
Markup language by Microsoft
Platform on Windows Vista. MAML is also used to provide help information for PowerShell V2 Cmdlets, modules and advanced functions. MAML is a departure from all
Microsoft Assistance Markup Language
Microsoft_Assistance_Markup_Language
Patterns used in computer programming
Shells may use an expansion for their own builtin commands: Windows PowerShell has all the common syntax defined as stated above without any additions
Glob_(programming)
Version of Windows Server, released in 2012
feature from the server manager, but is not installed by default. Windows PowerShell in this version has over 2300 commandlets, compared to around 200 in Windows
Windows_Server_2012
Proposed web cryptography standard
Erlang Go Haskell Java JavaScript Julia Lua Node.js OCaml Perl PHP PL/SQL PowerShell Python Racket Raku Ruby Rust Scala Swift JSON web tokens may contain session
JSON_Web_Token
Group of server operating systems by Microsoft
Configuration Manager Docker Hub Intune Default user interface Windows shell PowerShell Windows Admin Center License Trialware, SaaS, or volume licensing Official
Windows_Server
Decentralized hacktivist collective
group by the name "Lab Dookhtegan" published the Microsoft Excel macros, PowerShell exploits APT34 reportedly used to target organizations across the world
Anonymous_(hacker_group)
Relational database programming language
SQL:2011 SQL:2016 SQL:2023 Influenced by Datalog Influenced CQL, LINQ, SPARQL, SOQL, PowerShell, JPQL, jOOQ, N1QL, GQL Structured Query Language at Wikibooks
SQL
Web browser by Microsoft
the browser from the Control Panel's browser toolbar settings or via PowerShell. On June 15, 2022, Internet Explorer 11 support ended for the Windows
Internet_Explorer
Command in various operating systems
(shells) such as COMMAND.COM, cmd.exe, 4DOS, NDOS, 4OS2, 4NT and Windows PowerShell. It is used to delete one or more files or directories from a file system
Del_(command)
Official open-source package manager for Windows 10/11
behind it explored Chocolatey, Scoop, Ninite, AppGet, Npackd and the PowerShell-based OneGet. After the announcement of winget, the developer of AppGet
Windows_Package_Manager
Computer program that runs as a background process
Service Control Manager sc command, the net start and net stop commands, PowerShell, or a custom program. However, any Windows application can perform the
Daemon_(computing)
Any file that contains a reference to another file or directory
Unlike Command Prompt, PowerShell returns an error if the source object path is invalid. In exchange, PowerShell correctly determines the type
Symbolic_link
Shell for Windows NT and other operating systems
line with the introduction of NT. Current versions of Windows include PowerShell as an alternative shell that runs side-by-side with cmd.exe. The initial
Cmd.exe
common use. The command is available in various Unix shells, as well as in PowerShell, ReactOS, and KolibriOS. It is also included as external command in PTS-DOS
History_(command)
SDL PowerBuilder – 4GL GUI application generator from Sybase Powerhouse PowerShell Polymorphic Programming Language (PPL) Processing, Processing.js Prograph
List_of_programming_languages
COM-based Visual Basic scripting language
remove support for VBScript, Microsoft suggested migrating to Windows PowerShell or JavaScript. In a web page loaded by Internet Explorer, VBScript is
VBScript
Text in computer source code that is generally ignored by a compiler/interpreter
block comment varies. Notable languages include: Bash, Raku, Ruby, Perl, PowerShell, Python and R. An example in R: # This is a comment print("This is not
Comment (computer programming)
Comment_(computer_programming)
Section of a source code file that is treated as if it were a separate file
a syntax form that can be composed with the rest of the language. In PowerShell, here documents are referred to as here-strings. A here-string is a string
Here_document
Interpreted programming language first released in 1987
Influenced CoffeeScript,[citation needed] Groovy,[citation needed] JavaScript, Julia, LPC, PHP, Python, Raku, Ruby, PowerShell Perl Programming at Wikibooks
Perl
Cybersecurity attack using USB devices
a keyboard, and then initiated a series of keystrokes which opened a PowerShell window and issued commands to download malware to the test computer, and
BadUSB
2006 Microsoft operating system version
Management Framework (Background Intelligent Transfer Service 4.0, Windows PowerShell 2.0, and Windows Remote Management 2.0) of Windows 7 was also made available
Windows_Vista
Topics referred to by the same term
infinitesimally close to a given point Monad shell, the code name for the PowerShell command line interface for Microsoft Windows Monads, megastructures in
Monad
Mathematical symbol for "greater than"
operator .GE. means "greater than or equal to". In Bourne shell and Windows PowerShell, the operator -ge means "greater than or equal to". -> is used in some
Greater-than_sign
Proprietary file system developed by Microsoft
Retrieved 12 August 2023. "What's New in Windows PowerShell 5.0 - PowerShell § New features in Windows PowerShell 3.0". Microsoft Learn. 16 December 2022. Retrieved
NTFS
Engine. SQL Server 2008 also makes the databases available via Windows PowerShell providers and management functionality available as Cmdlets, so that the
History of Microsoft SQL Server
History_of_Microsoft_SQL_Server
File system object that is not displayed by default
the bundled Windows Command Prompt and PowerShell) can see the folder, its name, and its content. PowerShell started out as the successor Windows Command
Hidden file and hidden directory
Hidden_file_and_hidden_directory
Empty space at the beginning of a line to signal the start of a new paragraph
Retrieved 18 February 2014. "Code Layout and Formatting – PowerShell Practice and Style". PowerShell Practice and Style. Retrieved 17 October 2021. "PEP 8
Indentation_(typesetting)
Command to change the working directory
(i.e. Linux) shells, and Microsoft shells including Command Prompt and PowerShell. Other operating systems with shells supporting the command include OS/2
Cd_(command)
Small amount of source code used for productivity
completion and placeholder substitution can be used in shells such as bash and PowerShell. Integrated development environments often supports snippet by implementing
Snippet_(programming)
Directory service, created by Microsoft for Windows domain networks
workaround for an Active Directory administrator is to write a custom PowerShell or Visual Basic script to automatically create and maintain a user group
Active_Directory
Mathematical symbol for "less than"
and <= both mean "less than or equal to". In Bourne shell and Windows PowerShell, the operator -le means "less than or equal to". In the R programming
Less-than_sign
Anti-malware software
release of Windows Server 2016, Microsoft introduced a Defender module for PowerShell, which allows interacting with Windows Defender via a command-line interface
Microsoft_Defender_Antivirus
VBScript Visual Basic C# C/AL a.k.a. Navision Attain F# MVPL Power Fx PowerShell Q# Transact-SQL TypeScript Visual J++ Visual J# Web properties Azure Bing
List_of_Microsoft_video_games
Script written for an operating system shell
Nushell (nu) xonsh shell (xonsh), pronounced "conch", a Python-based shell PowerShell (pwsh) The C and Tcl shells have syntax quite similar to that of similarly-named
Shell_script
Abstractions used in the NTFS file system
NTFS links. PowerShell: The New-Item cmdlet of Windows PowerShell that can create empty files, folders, junctions, and hard links. In PowerShell 5.0 and later
NTFS_links
Shell command for listing files
many operating systems today, including Unix-like variants, Windows (via PowerShell and UnxUtils), EFI, and MSX-DOS (via MSX-DOS2 Tools). The numerical computing
Ls
Unary operators that add or subtract one from their operand, respectively
Bash C C++ C# CFML D Go Java JavaScript Objective-C GNU Octave PARI/GP Perl PHP PowerShell Vala Vex, a scripting language in Houdini Wolfram Language
Increment and decrement operators
Increment_and_decrement_operators
Script file for Microsoft computer operating systems
CSS and JScript. PowerShell — a free, open-source, cross-platform, object-oriented shell that can harness the .NET APIs. PowerShell was originally released
Batch_file
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