Need a new book
I beg of someone in the know, to write a website or book with real world scripts and then take each bit of the script and explain what it is all doing, step by step. For people like me who aren't the brightest, need hand holding especially when learning something new. The amount of sites I find with example scripts and then the person assumes you have a degree in computing so we get
"This script takes the output of the current object and pipes it into the next command that processes it into an output table."
Explain what the pipe is! Don't just say it and assume we know. I now do, but others don't.
I searched for a while the other day to find out what the fuck $_ was and then $_.name used in scripts and on sites but no one explains the little details. What is that specific bit of code doing!
I found one guide but it was explaining about a Linux command. But was exactly how I want Powershell guides. The guide had broken down every bit of the Linux command to explain what each bit did.
I then found one site that finally explained the $_ in English. Its a global variable. Like a big box with nothing in it but where you can store data. Because its global its built into powershell so you don't have to declare it (say what it is). You can add it on to a command to store the results of the command into it.
With $_.name you're taking the data that is in your big box and I believe the .name means that data is a file name.
Please make that book. I'd buy it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
