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Working with Objects in PowerShell
Everything in PowerShell revolves around working with objects. An object is a representation of a thing, and realistically, that can be anything. However, at this stage, it is better to stick with things PowerShell already does.
The Get-Process command in PowerShell returns objects that represent running processes in the operating system. The processes are broadly described by the Process type.
Type is a term .NET uses to describe the abstract representation of a thing. Abstract because it does not represent any single process (in this case), but how a process should look to the programming language (like PowerShell).
A single specific process is represented by an instance of the Type.
At this point, it can ...
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