Update powershell-beginners-guide.md

Changing descriptions for cmdlets with a synopsis from the help files.
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Aleksandar Nikolić
2016-07-19 04:42:36 +02:00
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@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Let’s exercise some of the basic PowerShell commands, also known as **cmdlets*
Please note that we will use the PowerShell prompt sign **PS />** as it appears on Linux in the following examples.
It is shown as **PS C:\>** on Windows.
**1. Get-Process**: displays the processes running on your system.
**1. Get-Process**: Gets the processes that are running on the local computer or a remote computer.
By default, you will get data back similar to the following:
``` PowerShell
@@ -94,12 +94,12 @@ Now try it:
PS /> Get-Process
PS /> cls
```
**4. cd - Set-Location**: Change your current working directory.
**4. cd - Set-Location**: Sets the current working location to a specified location.
```PowerShell
PS /> Set-Location /home
PS /home>
```
**5. dir - Get-ChildItem**: List all items in the specified location.
**5. dir - Get-ChildItem**: Gets the items and child items in one or more specified locations.
```PowerShell
Get all files under the current directory:
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ PS /> cd $home
PS /home/jen> dir –Path *.txt -Recurse
```
**6. New-Item**: Create a file
**6. New-Item**: Creates a new item.
```PowerShell
An empty file is created if you type the following:
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ Or simply use ">" as below:
```
The pound sign (#) above is used for comments in PowerShell.
**7. type - Get-Content**: Get the content of an item.
**7. type - Get-Content**: Gets the content of the item at the specified location.
```PowerShell
PS /home/jen> Get-Content -Path ./test.txt
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ PS /home/jen> type -Path ./test.txt
Hello world again!
```
**8. del - Remove-Item**: Delete a file or folder.
**8. del - Remove-Item**: Deletes the specified items.
This cmdlet will delete the file /home/jen/test.txt:
```PowerShell