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# About this Book

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

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