Windows PowerShell in Action, Third Edition

Chapter 4. Advanced operators and variables

This chapter covers

• Operators for working with types
• Unary operators
• Grouping and subexpressions
• Array, property, and method operators
• The format and redirection operators
• Working with variables

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Bertrand Russell

The previous chapter covered the basic operators in PowerShell, and in this chapter, we’ll continue our discussion of operators by looking at the advanced ones, which include things that some people don’t think of as operators at all. We’ll break the operators into related groups, as shown in figure 4.1.

Figure 4.1. The broad groups of operators we cover in this chapter

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