POCS-Ch4.1 & 4.2 (Vocab)

A replacement way to enter a command.

• device driver

• piping

• Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

• alias

Command-line interface for manually entering commands in a Windows computer.

• script

• hard link

• command prompt

• cmdlet

Software whose source code is not locked and can be modified by anyone.

• forked

• free and open source software (FOSS)

• man page

• object

Storage location for files and other directories.

• append

• symbolic link

• directory

• alias

To add to an existing data set.

• script

• append

• distro

• object

The directory that is active.

• alias

• free and open source software (FOSS)

• distro

• current directory

A program inside the PowerShell.

• switch

• batch file

• cmdlet

• provider

Software program that instructs a piece of hardware how to operate.

• provider

• append

• device driver

• hard link

Single file in which a command, series of commands, or set of instructions to be processed in sequence is listed.

• Windows Management Instrumentation IWMI)

• provider

• switch

• batch file

A specific version on Linux; short for distribution.

• Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

• wildcard character

• home directory

• distro