If you break down powershell to basics then everything is a script block including a script file a, functions and cmdlets. You can define your own parameters but in some occasions one is created by the …

You can use a PSObject like a Hashtable because PowerShell allows you to add properties to PSObjects, but you shouldn't do this because you'll lose access to Hashtable specific functionality, …

77 By wrapping your comparisons in {} in your first example you are creating ScriptBlocks; so the PowerShell interpreter views it as Where-Object { <ScriptBlock> -and <ScriptBlock> }. Since the -and …

Similarly, [pscustomobject] input makes the pipeline-based Select-Object -ExpandProperty Name faster, in Windows PowerShell virtually on par with .ForEach({ $_.Name }), but in PowerShell Core still …

Jan 15, 2017 · The former provides meta information about an object, like its name, base type, which assembly its from, etc. (pipe the output of GetType() into Format-List * to get a full list). The latter is …

39 You can get a property by name using the Select-Object cmdlet and specifying the property name (s) that you're interested in. Note that this doesn't simply return the raw value for that property; instead …

The term 'Using-Object' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and …

Feb 11, 2016 · I'm trying to get into PowerShell and have encountered my first hurdle. when I run Get-Command | Where-Object CommandType -contains Cmdlet My output gets filtered so that only …

Mar 8, 2016 · 71 I have a type FooObject and I have a JSON file which was serialized from a FooObject instance. Now I want to use ConvertFrom-Json to load the JSON file to memory and covert the …

The correct way to output information from a PowerShell cmdlet or function is to create an object that contains your data, and then to write that object to the pipeline by using Write-Output.