Summary
The pipeline is a key component of PowerShell. It allows data, as objects, to be sent from one command to another. Each command can act on the data it has received and, in many cases, return more data.
PowerShell includes a variety of commands for working with objects in a pipeline.
The Get-Member
command allows the members (properties, methods, and so on) to be explored, which can be used to understand what an object is capable of.
[PSCustomObject]
and [Ordered]
can be used to create a new custom object. Historically, New-Object
and Add-Member
have had a significant part to play in creating custom objects but their usage has now been deprecated.
ForEach-Object
is a common command that’s used to run arbitrary code against objects in a pipeline. Where-Object
may be used to filter a pipeline, returning only relevant objects.
The Select-Object
command is used to define what properties should be returned. Select-Object
can be used to include or remove...