Question

1. Who created Powershell?

2. What is the "pipe" command and what is it used for?

3. What is the script that is used to find all the services that are currently running on the computer?

4. What is the PowerShell command to run Notepad?

5. What is are the aliases for the following PowerShell commands: Set-Location, Copy-Item, Get-Childitem, New-PSDrive.

Answer 1

1. Who created PowerShell?
Jeffrey Snover is the primary inventor of PowerShell along with co-inventors Bruce Payette and James Truher.

2. What is the "pipe" command and what is it used for?
pipe command is represented by the symbol |. The output of one command can be given as a subsequent command using a pipe.
For example:
sort abc.txt | uniq
This would sort abc.txt file, the sorted output is given as an input to uniq command to filter only unique values.

3. What is the script that is used to find all the services that are currently running on the computer?
We can use below command in PowerShell to find all the services currently running in the system.
Get-WmiObject win32_service

4. What is the PowerShell command to run Notepad?
Win + R
enter powershell
PowerShell would open.

Once PowerShell is opened type the below command

Start-Process 'C:\windows\system32\notepad.exe' -Credential $cred

This would open notepad.

5. What is are the aliases for the following PowerShell commands: Set-Location, Copy-Item, Get-Childitem, New-PSDrive.
PSPath for Set-Location
ad, d for Get-Childitem
cf for Copy-Item
wi for New-PSDrive