Now that we have covered the fundamentals of formatting data in PowerShell,
one of the very next questions you will likely have is,
hey,
this is cool, but what can I do with this formatted
data other than see it on the screen?
This module, Working With PowerShell's "Out" Cmdlets,
explores and answers that question.
When you're working with data in PowerShell,
you'll often get to a point where you have exactly
what you need in the format you need.
But now you want to get it out of the PowerShell system to do something with it.
In PowerShell, this is often,
but not always done with what are known as the out cmdlets. I say not always
because there are other structured data formats like JSON, XML, and CSV that
have their own specific cmdlets in PowerShell,
and those deal with raw PowerShell objects rather than formatted data.
But those are outside the scope of what we're talking about here,
and there are other courses in the PowerShell 7
fundamentals track at Pluralsight that will help you with
that structured data in PowerShell.
We'll spend a few minutes covering some of the theory of the out
cmdlets, followed by getting hands on with a bunch of the out cmdlets
in the PowerShell console. We'll wrap things up at the end by
summarizing this module and the course.
Our friend, Dan, at Globomantics is now comfortable
with formatting data in PowerShell, but his manager,
Anna, is now asking Dan for some basic report of data.
Dan knows how to retrieve the information in PowerShell,
and he now knows how to format it.
And while he can display it on his screen, this doesn't really help Anna.
We need to help Dan understand the methods of getting formatted data out
of PowerShell. Before we jump to it, I want to quickly remind you about
the exercise files that are available with this course. They contain the
PowerPoint slide decks in PDF format,
as well as text files with the commands I run in every clip to help you follow along.