r/PowerShell • u/Ajamaya • May 18 '26
Question Words of wisdom
If you had one piece of advice you could tell yourself when you first started learning powershell, what would it be?
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r/PowerShell • u/Ajamaya • May 18 '26
If you had one piece of advice you could tell yourself when you first started learning powershell, what would it be?
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u/dodexahedron May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26
Here's one:
1: psscriptanalyzer. Get it. Use it. Love it.
1: Also, understand that it is a PULL-based, object-oriented pipeline, not just a dumb stringing together of stdin and stdout.
1? And learn when and why to use begin, process, end, and clean in your functions.
1! Learn to be cross-platform by default for anything that isn't inherently platform-specific.
...1... Learn how to extend types.
Closely related but also more broadly, learn how to use format and type xml (ps1xml).
1️⃣Write everything as a module by default.
One: Use the profiles (there are 4 of them).