List of commands: https://www.pdq.com/powershell/. PowerShell, Powercat & Nishang

What actually is Powershell?

Common Commands + Alias + Table

Enumeration Commands + Table

Powershell Scripting

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Some commands that you might require on daily basis as a beginner for Pentesting.

Basic - Help, Grep, Length, gcm, pwd, Test-Path

Help menu - Get-Help <Command> or help <command> or man <command> (PS treats man same as help) e.g. help New-Object, (Look REMARKS for more commands) -

Grep - Select-String or sls e.g. To find short alias of commands, alias of Get-Alias is gal : gal > shorts.txt then cat shorts.txt | sls "gal" outputs Get-Alias.

• Calculate no of lines from a file: Length() method to retrive no of lines

  (gc D:\\Temp\\commands.csv).Length (gc is Get-Content, other alias are cat & type)

• List all commands: E.g. listing only cmdlets - gcm -CommandType Cmdlet (gcm is Get-Command) and (gcm -CommandType Cmdlet).Length outputs 6638 : no of cmdlets in PS.

• Current Working Location: pwd or gl or Get-Location.

• Test if Path esists: Test-Path "C:\\Users\\Administrator\\Documents\\Passwords"

Hashing - Get-FileHash

Alternate for other OSes - shasum(mac), md5(mac), sha256sum(linux), md5sum(linux)

Get-FileHash D:\\Temp\\file.txt -Algorithm MD5 E.g. and Get-FileHash help menu.