Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Fourth Edition

10 The pipeline, deeper

At this point, you’ve learned to be pretty effective with PowerShell’s pipeline. Running commands (e.g., Get-Process | Sort-Object VM -desc | ConvertTo-Html | Out-File procs.html) is powerful, accomplishing in one line what used to take several lines of script. But you can do even better. In this chapter, we dig deeper into the pipeline and uncover some of its most powerful capabilities, which allow you to pass data between commands the right way with less work.

10.1 The pipeline: Enabling power with less typing

One of the reasons we like PowerShell so much is that it enables us to be more effective administrators without having to write complex scripts, as we used to have to do in Bash. The key to powerful one-line commands ...