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I've just heard from our friend, Dan, over at Globomantics and he's now

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got everything he needs to format and output data in PowerShell making

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his life easier and getting his manager, Anna,

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what she needs in the right format, and the best part is Dan now knows how

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to make PowerShell do all of the heavy lifting for him.

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Remember that the format commands just format data, they don't do

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anything else with it, but that's what the out cmdlets are for.

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PowerShell's out cmdlets are responsible for sending information out

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of PowerShell to somewhere else.

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That somewhere else might simply be the screen or it might

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be to a file, to a printer, or to that grid view that we

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looked at in the last clip.

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I want you to take a least one key thing away from this summary and that

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is to put your out cmdlets last in the pipeline always.

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You're telling PowerShell to send data out of

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PowerShell so that is these end of the road,

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or at least the end of the pipeline, you know what I mean.

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Please remember that the exercise files are there on the

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Pluralsight portal for you to download,

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and they contain the commands that we ran throughout this whole course.

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I've also included some links in there for further reading should that

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be of interest to you. I'd love to leave you with a challenge and that

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is that if you haven't done so already, go and get hands on with this stuff.

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The more you start playing around and trying different formats and output,

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the more you'll solidify your knowledge, and before long, formatting

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and outputting data in PowerShell will start to feel like a muscle

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memory that you won't even need to think about.

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My Twitter handle is @mattallford,

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and there is also a discussion section on the Pluralsight portal where you

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found this course. I would love to hear from you whether that's to let me

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know what you're doing with PowerShell, or,

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of course, if you've got any questions, or even if you just want to say hi.

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And finally, I'd like to thank you for taking the time

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to work through this course with me.

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I truly hope that you've enjoyed the content and,

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most importantly, learn some new skills.

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It has been a real pleasure to create this course, and I look

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forward to hearing from you about your success with PowerShell and seeing you again here, at Pluralsight.