Bash to Powershell Cheatsheet

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Bash to PowerShell Cheatsheet: A quick reference guide to help you translate common Bash commands into their PowerShell equivalents—and vice versa.

Ideal for developers, sysadmins, or anyone transitioning between Linux and Windows environments.

File Operations

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List files in a directory

ls

Get-ChildItem

Change directory

cd <directory>

Set-Location <directory>

Copy a file

cp <source> <destination>

Copy-Item <source> <destination>

Move a file

mv <source> <destination>

Move-Item <source> <destination>

Delete a file

rm <file>

Remove-Item <file>

Create a directory

mkdir <directory>

New-Item -ItemType Directory -Name <directory>

Delete a directory

rmdir <directory>

Remove-Item <directory> -Recurse

Text Processing

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Print text to the console

echo "Hello, World!"

Write-Output "Hello, World!"

Read a file

cat <file>

Get-Content <file>

Find text in a file

grep "text" <file>

Select-String -Pattern "text" -Path <file>

Replace text in a file

sed 's/old/new/g' <file>

`(Get-Content <file>) -replace 'old', 'new'

System Information

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Display current user

whoami

$env:UserName

Display system information

uname -a

Get-ComputerInfo

Display environment variables

printenv

Get-ChildItem Env:

Network Operations

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Display IP address

ip addr show

Get-NetIPAddress

Test network connection

ping <host>

Test-Connection <host>

Display network configuration

ifconfig

Get-NetIPConfiguration

Package Management

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Install a package

apt-get install <package>

Install-Package <package>

Update package list

apt-get update

Update-Package

Upgrade all packages

apt-get upgrade

Update-Package -All