To-do

While the first version of this e-book is being written this list will be largely mechanical stuff which needs to be done to get the e-book into a suitable state. Subsequently it will be more a list of unix stuff for which I/we stilll need to find or document a PowerShell equivalent.

for future versions

test conditions (not entirely sure that's the right unix terminology) - built test conditions like if file exists and is not a directory, if variable exists and is not null

pushd/popd

shutdown -r - restart-computer

more/less - remember it doesn't work in ISE

find - the various options. -newer, -exec

uname uname options

crontab -l cp -r ls -R .profile

bg cp cut

env eval file find free (memory) fuser filename head

tee

/var/log/message write & (run in background) PS1 (line contunuation prompt) declare -F type Parameter passing cut -f 3 for (p127) while (p139) until case select p113, p136 String comparisons p118 File attribute operations p122 fileinfo Number comparisons p126 IFS (internal field separator) p127 PS3 getopts p145 let p145 arrays p160 here -documents p165 debugging stuff p221 -n (syntax check) -v -x

For the section on ' | egrep -i' i.e. how to search for something within the pipeline, I've currently got instructions on how to use -like against a particular property. It would be good to have an alternative which did allow you to search across the whole output. Not very useful typically, but it would be nice to cover it off

export (variables)

my search history function

Mark L's comments

  • would expect to see stuff like 'if-then-else' in the introductory pages

  • would be worth looking at the man pages for bash itself (and perhaps for cmd)

  • cover re-direction

  • 'special variables' - $HOME, $PROFILE

More detail on invoke-locate ?

Cover Get-Item as well as Get-ChildItem for ls

Convert from gwmi to get-ciminstance

More on mailx/send-mailmessage

Think about whether to expand any and all aliases to the full command name

More on mv?

Fill out detail on the ps process tree option. All unix processes being descendants of root, windows processes not necessarily being descendants of anything

More on more :). More isn't an alias for out-host -paging

ps options - starting with those in the cygwin or bash help

ps -0 (get security info) ps -eo euser,ruser,suser,fuser,f,comm,label ps axZ ps -eM

....have been looking at the cim but not got anything much yet. http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/tips/archive/2009/12/17/get-process-owners.aspx has wmi

ps -o

   To see every process with a user-defined format:
      ps -eo pid,tid,class,rtprio,ni,pri,psr,pcpu,stat,wchan:14,comm
      ps axo stat,euid,ruid,tty,tpgid,sess,pgrp,ppid,pid,pcpu,comm
      ps -eopid,tt,user,fname,tmout,f,wchan

ps -C

   Print only the process IDs of syslogd:
      ps -C syslogd -o pid=

ps -p

   Print only the name of PID 42:
      ps -p 42 -o comm=

rm options

rmdir

sort and sort -uniq - more detail on each

uptime - restore the 'sos' function etc....but work out what the approved verb would be for 'show'

who am i - as opposed to whoami. I think it shows the user you originally logged on as

the non-alphabetical stuff: and backtick

$ env | sort _=/bin/env CVS_RSH=ssh G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1 HISTSIZE=1000 HOME=/home/matt HOSTNAME=whatever.co.uk INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc LANG=en_GB LESSOPEN=|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s LOGNAME=matt LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=00;34:ln=00;36:pi=40;33:so=00;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:ex=00;32:.cmd=00;32:.exe=00;32:.com=00;32:.btm=00;32:.bat=00;32:.sh=00;32:.csh=00;32:.tar=00;31:.tgz=00;31:.arj=00;31:.taz=00;31:.lzh=00;31:.zip=00;31:.z=00;31:.Z=00;31:.gz=00;31:.bz2=00;31:.bz=00;31:.tz=00;31:.rpm=00;31:.cpio=00;31:.jpg=00;35:.gif=00;35:.bmp=00;35:.xbm=00;35:.xpm=00;35:.png=00;35:.tif=00;35: MAIL=/var/spool/mail/matt PATH=/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/matt/bin PS1=$ PWD=/home/matt SHELL=/bin/bash SHLVL=1 SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/1 TERM=xterm

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