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# PowerShell

PowerShell is Windows new shell. It comes by default from Windows 7. But can be downloaded and installed in earlier versions.

* PowerShell provides access to almost everything an attacker might want.
* It is based on the .NET framework.
* It is basically bash for windows

### Basics <a href="#basics" id="basics"></a>

So a command in PowerShell is called **cmdlet**. To get help on how to use a **cmdlet** while in PowerShell, the man-page, you do:

```
Get-Help    <cmdlet    name    |    topic    name>
```

Example

```
get-help echo
get-help get-command
```