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We've long been advocates of outputting objects, rather than text, and of keeping individual functions very single-task-specific. Here's an ultimate example of these two philosophies: The first function, Get-DriveInventory, emits custom "drive inventory objects" rather than text. The second, Write-DriveInventory, takes these objects and writes their properties to a pre-designed…   More »

Whenever possible, functions (especially) and scripts (to a lesser degree) should emit custom objects, not just text. This ensures that the output of these constructs can be piped to other cmdlets, like Where-Object, Sort-Object, and so forth, further extending PowerShell's capabilities. To create a custom object: $obj = New-Object PSObject…   More »