06.The pipeline

Connecting one command to another

Exporting to a file

Exporting to CSV

Get-Process | Export-CSV process.csv

Import-CSV process.csv

Exporting to JSON

Exporting to XML

Out-File

We have talked about CSV, JSON, and XML files, but what if you simply want a flat file to store your data in? Let’s look at the Out-File command. It takes the data that is in the pipeline and directs it out to a flat file—below a text file in our example:

Get-ChildItem | Select-Object Name | Out-File process.txt

This series of piped commands can be useful when creating a cover page for listing all article titles in a certain folder.

Comaring files

Piping to a file

Converting to HTML

Using cmdlets that modify the system

Common points of confusion