Binary operators

Binary operators are used to perform bitwise operations in PowerShell. That is, operations based around the bits that make up a numeric value. Each operator returns the numeric result of a binary operation.

The available operators are:

• Binary and: -band
• Binary or: -bor
• Binary exclusive or: -bxor
• Binary not: -bnot

Binary and

The result of -band is a number where each of the bits in both the value on the left and the value on the right is set.

In the following example, the result is 2:

11 -band 6 

This operation can be shown in a table:

Bit value		8	4	2	1
Left-hand side	11	1	0	1	1
Right-hand side	6	0	1	1	0
-band	2	0	0	1	0

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