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PowerShell: Automating Administrative Tasks
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PowerShell: Automating Administrative Tasks

by Michael Shepard, Chendrayan Venkatesan, Sherif Talaat, Brenton J.W. Blawat
February 2017
Beginner
737 pages
15h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 4. Life on the Assembly Line

The object-oriented pipeline is one of the distinctive features of the PowerShell environment. The ability to refer to properties of arbitrary objects without parsing increases the expressiveness of the language and allows you to work with all kinds of objects with ease.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • How the pipeline works
  • Some of the most common cmdlets to deal with data on the pipeline:
    • Sort-Object
    • Where-Object
    • Select-Object
    • Group-Object

The pipeline as an assembly line

The pipeline in PowerShell is a mechanism to get data from one command to another. Simply put, the data that is output from the first command is treated as input to the next command in the pipeline. The pipeline isn't limited ...

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