Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches

Chapter 4. The pipeline: connecting commands

In chapter 2, you saw that running commands in PowerShell is basically the same as running commands in any other shell: you type a command name, give it some parameters, and hit Return. What makes PowerShell so special isn’t the way it runs commands, but rather the way it allows multiple commands to be connected to each other in powerful, one-line sequences.

4.1. Connect one command to another: less work for you!

PowerShell connects commands to each other in something called a pipeline. The pipeline is simply a way for one command to pass, or pipe, its output to another command, so that the second command has something to work with.

You’ve already seen this in action when you run something like ...