I've just heard from our friend, Dan, over at Globomantics and he's now
got everything he needs to format and output data in PowerShell making
his life easier and getting his manager, Anna,
what she needs in the right format, and the best part is Dan now knows how
to make PowerShell do all of the heavy lifting for him.
Remember that the format commands just format data, they don't do
anything else with it, but that's what the out cmdlets are for.
PowerShell's out cmdlets are responsible for sending information out
of PowerShell to somewhere else.
That somewhere else might simply be the screen or it might
be to a file, to a printer, or to that grid view that we
looked at in the last clip.
I want you to take a least one key thing away from this summary and that
is to put your out cmdlets last in the pipeline always.
You're telling PowerShell to send data out of
PowerShell so that is these end of the road,
or at least the end of the pipeline, you know what I mean.
Please remember that the exercise files are there on the
Pluralsight portal for you to download,
and they contain the commands that we ran throughout this whole course.
I've also included some links in there for further reading should that
be of interest to you. I'd love to leave you with a challenge and that
is that if you haven't done so already, go and get hands on with this stuff.
The more you start playing around and trying different formats and output,
the more you'll solidify your knowledge, and before long, formatting
and outputting data in PowerShell will start to feel like a muscle
memory that you won't even need to think about.
My Twitter handle is @mattallford,
and there is also a discussion section on the Pluralsight portal where you
found this course. I would love to hear from you whether that's to let me
know what you're doing with PowerShell, or,
of course, if you've got any questions, or even if you just want to say hi.
And finally, I'd like to thank you for taking the time
to work through this course with me.
I truly hope that you've enjoyed the content and,
most importantly, learn some new skills.
It has been a real pleasure to create this course, and I look
forward to hearing from you about your success with PowerShell and seeing you again here, at Pluralsight.