Chapter 3. Pipelining

In This Chapter:

 

Pipelining Basics

43

Pipeline Processor

47

Complex Pipelines

48

Output

49

Getting User Input

56

Windows PowerShell (WPS) shows its real power through its object-oriented pipeline (that is, the passing of typed data from one commandlet to another). The pipeline in WPS contains structured objects, and the WPS provides a few commandlets for working with these objects, (for example, filtering, sorting, and calculating).

Pipelining Basics

To create a pipeline, you use the vertical line (|), as you would in UNIX shells and the normal Windows console.

The command

Get-Process | Format-List

means that the result of the Get-Process commandlets will be passed on to the commandlet Format-List. The standard output form of Get-Process ...

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