Chapter 3 Advanced PowerShell Concepts

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Most shells operate in a text-based environment. Being text-based, these types of shells require an administrator to manipulate the text-based data from commands to complete an automation task. For example, if you need to pipe data from one command to the next, usually the output from the first command must be reformatted to meet the second command’s requirements. While this method does work, and has so for years, it means that working with text-based shells can be difficult, time-consuming, and frustrating without the use of custom tools to complete an automation task ...

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