Essential PowerShell

Chapter 4. Advanced Pipelining

In This Chapter:
Analyzing Pipeline Content	59
Filtering Objects	70
Castrating Objects	73
Sorting Objects	74
Grouping Objects	74
Calculations	76
Intermediate Steps in the Pipeline	76
Comparing Objects	78
Ramifications	78

This chapter includes advanced Windows PowerShell (WPS) pipelining features such as filtering, sorting, grouping, comparing, and calculating. The chapter introduces a few commandlets that are commonly used (for example, Where-Object, Sort-Object, Group-Object, and Get-Member).

Analyzing Pipeline Content

One of the greatest challenges in working with WPS is to answer the following two questions:

1.	Which type do the objects, which are placed in the pipeline by a commandlet, have?
2.	Which properties and methods do these ...