How it works...

There're many verbs in PowerShell that indicate changes such as New, Set, and Remove. Many of those cmdlets also return objects for the data that's altered or created. If one of those parameters doesn't provide output such as Stop-Process, you can try using the PassThru parameter if it is available. It usually means that objects will be returned.

In the recipe, you can see the usual flow between different cmdlets. The file can be created, modified, and removed using the pipeline and cmdlets related to each other. In Chapter 2, Reading and Writing Output, we'll see how pipeline input is usually processed.

With the new parameter, &, you can start a background job, much like the forking parameter on Linux. The job results can be collected later as well.