Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition

4 Review: Parameter binding and the PowerShell pipeline

Take traditional pipeline behavior from shells like Bash and Cmd.exe, mix in PowerShell’s unique object-oriented nature, and add a dash of Linux-style command parsing. The result is PowerShell’s pipeline, a fairly complex and deeply powerful tool for composing tools into administrative solutions. Our goal is to turn you from a scripter into a toolmaker; to do so, you must understand the pipeline at its most basic level and create tools that take full advantage of the pipeline. Although we covered these concepts in Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Fourth Edition (Manning, 2022), we’ll go deeper in this chapter and focus on the pipeline as something to write for, rather than just