PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook

How it works...

Importing content from a CSV is a straightforward process. The columns in a CSV are separated by commas. PowerShell creates an object from the input content, with each column making a property of a PowerShell custom object. Operations that we perform on objects can be performed on the PSCustomObject, however, the only limitation with Import-Csv is that the properties cannot be multi-valued, nor can they have other sub-properties within them. There could be ways to achieve multi-valued properties with CSV, but they would involve some manipulation after the object is imported within PowerShell. One such way is to separate the values of the property with a delimiter, and then, after the import, split the delimited value.

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