This one get's me every time.
I come to reading the input pipeline, using
$input
Only to find, that the object I thought would be there, was something else.
What it normally means is that the previous part of my pipeline, has some how dumped rubbish into the pipeline that I didn't want, or was expecting. And, $input now includes this.
As a rule, I normally use Write-Output to put an object into the pipeline, and its the last thing I do in my script.
This makes it easier for my next pipeline action to pickup
$input | Select-Object -last 1
This works most of the time for me, as whatever else leaks into the pipeline, I know that my object, the one that counts, is last in the line.
It's on my list of things to understand better:
I come to reading the input pipeline, using
$input
Only to find, that the object I thought would be there, was something else.
What it normally means is that the previous part of my pipeline, has some how dumped rubbish into the pipeline that I didn't want, or was expecting. And, $input now includes this.
As a rule, I normally use Write-Output to put an object into the pipeline, and its the last thing I do in my script.
This makes it easier for my next pipeline action to pickup
$input | Select-Object -last 1
This works most of the time for me, as whatever else leaks into the pipeline, I know that my object, the one that counts, is last in the line.
It's on my list of things to understand better:
- Can I flush the output before my script exists
- Aside from using Out-Null on any scripts or cmdlets I invoke, is there any other way to surpress their output.
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