What is a pipe?

Using the pipe character (|), we can select the objects and then perform an action on them.

These three cmdlets--Get-Command, Get-Help, and Get-Member--are important to understand and use, especially when you are new to PowerShell. If you take a closer look, you will find the highlighted letters spell Microsoft compiled HTML help (.chm) files, which were the old-school help files available in Windows. We will use them throughout the book to get additional information on the commands we will use.