# About this Book

by (mostly) Don Jones

PowerShell is full of "gotchas" - little things that just get in your way and are hard to figure out on your own. This short book is intended to help you figure them out and avoid them.

This guide is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. The authors encourage you to redistribute this file as widely as possible, but ask that you do not modify the document.

**Getting the Code** The EnhancedHTML2 module mentioned in this book can be found in the [https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/EnhancedHTML2/](https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/big-book-of-powershell-gotchas/tree/05865291f27820ed83b2140be986b348318fdaef/manuscript/PowerShell%20Gallery/README.md). That page includes download instructions. PowerShellGet is required, and can be obtained from PowerShellGallery.com

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