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PowerShell Tips

Write-Host vs Write-Output

Write-Host writes directly to the console; Write-Output writes to the pipeline, which often ends up to the console but not necessarily.

For example: Write-Host "The Cake is a lie" | Out-Null won't work as expected, Write-Output "The Cake is a lie" | Out-Null will.

False Friends

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/*
 * Available context bindings:
 *   COLUMNS     List<DataColumn>
 *   ROWS        Iterable<DataRow>
 *   OUT         { append() }
 *   FORMATTER   { format(row, col); formatValue(Object, col) }
 *   TRANSPOSED  Boolean
 * plus ALL_COLUMNS, TABLE, DIALECT
 *
 * where: