Piping to a script block

stackexchangeuser10 · July 18, 2016, 4:23pm

This code works but I don’t understand why.

Is this dot sourcing a script block or something else?

donj · July 18, 2016, 5:14pm

Yeah, it’s essentially dot-sourcing a script block. Kinda. $_ represents the pipeline object being input to the script. Visually, I find it a poor practice - it isn’t appreciably different from using ForEach-Object, and it’s not as easy to understand.

stackexchangeuser10 · July 19, 2016, 9:33am

Yep. Confused me.

Thanks.

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Piping to a script block

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