[Jochim]

Not OP but the "-Object" commands are pretty fundamental to creating useful pipelines:

Select-Object - Pick out specific fields from an object, create calculated fields etc.

Where-Object - Drop non-matching objects from the rest of the pipeline.

Group-Object - Cluster objects into groups based on a shared property value.

Sort-Object - Order an array of objects based on a property value.

Get-Content - Read from a file.

ConvertFrom-(CSV/JSON) - Parse a json/csv formatted string into a powershell object.

ConvertTo-(CSV/JSON) - Serialise a powershell object into a csv/json string.

(Parallel)ForEach-Object - Loop over each item in the pipeline, performing one or more actions on it. Usually occurs at the end of the pipeline, or when you need to call an executable that can't handle pipeline input.

One thing I struggled with in the beginning, was not knowing what properties an object might have. You can pipe any object into `Get-Member` and it'll list its available properties and methods.

Many of the "-Object" commands support the use of script blocks if you need to carry out more complex filtering/projection.

[ethbr1]

Thanks for the detailed write-up! I'll give them a try today.