The pipeline is a central concept in PowerShell.  It enables you to chain the output from one command to the input of the next, making automation much smoother.  Making your scripts and functions play nicely with the pipeline can mean really impact the ease of use and adaptability of your functions.

Finding the Value

In scripts and advanced functions, declaring a parameter whose value can come from the pipeline is pretty straightforward.  You can specify whether you are looking for the full object

[parameter(ValueFromPipeline=$true)]

or if you would like the value to be filled in by a property on an incoming object

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## The Hidden Value




When you enable a parameter to take a value from the pipeline (or a property on the pipeline), you gain a hidden benefit - Scriptblock Parameters.



### Transforming Input




Scriptblock parameters allow you to modify the input to a parameter based on the incoming object by specifying a scriptblock instead of a value to a parameter.