[WorldMaker]

For the third item in majkinetor's list, this is maybe one of the better explainers, with plenty of screenshots:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/scripting/learn-about-using-p...

If you pipe objects around between cmdlets, PowerShell will auto-bind object properties to cmdlet parameters. Which feels like the magic of the Unix pipe text streams everywhere but lets you skip several text parsers (no grep/awk/sed intermediates perhaps) and feels like even more magic when it just works: `Get-Process -Filter something | Stop-Process`. The blog post gets into some of the details of how it works and that it isn't just magic and that in PowerShell you can even inspect with tools like Get-Help to discover how it is doing it and use that to your advantage to automate complex tasks with very simple command lines.