Chapter 17. Turning command-line tools into PowerShell tools
Jeffery Hicks
As terrific as PowerShell is as an automation engine and management tool, and despite the new cmdlets that shipped with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, there are still times when a command-line (CLI) tool gets the job done. Perhaps there isn’t a cmdlet replacement yet, or the CLI tool is easy to run. Or perhaps you have some legacy batch files that you need to use. The downside is that although you can run these tools in PowerShell, you’re limited with regard to what you can do with them because CLI tools write text and PowerShell is all about objects.
In this chapter I’ll show you how to turn output from CLI tools into something you can work with in a PowerShell ...
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