PowerShell for Beginners: Learn PowerShell 7 Through Hands-On Mini Games

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I. WatersPowerShell for Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7064-6_17

17. Working with Files

Ian Waters¹  

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Bexhill, UK

 

Using a few PowerShell cmdlets and even some built-in tricks, we can read from and write to files. This is especially useful if you write a script that gets run multiple times and you need to save data or script options to retrieve at a later date. You may also want to save data collected from a script into a CSV file, which could later be imported into Excel to produce a report. For us, we can use basic text files to store level, character, and other object graphics and settings. We can even store character scripts, which control ...