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Hello everyone, and welcome back to the next lesson in

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Learning the PowerShell Language.

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In this lesson,

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we're going to look how to work with the common PowerShell

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operators. In PowerShell, it's really all about doing. You're

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either getting something or setting something or removing

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something or comparing something.

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And for these operations, we need operators. Learning the

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operators are a critical part of the PowerShell language. This is

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how you're going to connect things together.

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Obviously, you can use these operators interactively at the

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console, and when you get to PowerShell scripting,

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you will continue to use PowerShell operators.

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Now the operators I'm going to show you really are

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very basic and really simple to use.

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There's really nothing complicated here.

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I do encourage you to read the help documentation. There are a

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number of about_ something operators. So you can just use a

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wildcard search, and you can see all of them.

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And many of the operators will work also in Windows PowerShell 5.1.

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In fact, I'm expecting a number of you may have some

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Windows PowerShell experience,

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so I don't think these operators will be new to you.

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There are some new operators in PowerShell 7 we'll get

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to, but really, for the most part,

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everything I'm going to show should also work in Windows

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PowerShell 5.1. Now the operators, as I mentioned,

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are really quite simple. It's nothing complicated here.

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This module is more of me going through and at least

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illustrating these operators and showing you how they work.

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Demonstrations really are very simple.

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In fact,

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I'm not going to do any live demonstration as I normally do. I'm

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going to do everything here in the slides.

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However,

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all of the code that I'm using in my slides to demonstrate these

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operators is also available in the course downloads. So you can grab those downloads and try these things out on your own.