Isn't that what Powershell does? It passes structured records between processes when using pipes[0] and they can be formatted and written to disk[1], as they're

Isn't that what Powershell does? It passes structured records between processes when using pipes[0] and they can be formatted and written to disk[1], as they're not just a stream of characters. [0] http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/powershell-piping-filtering-objects,2-771.html http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/powershell-piping-filterin... [1] http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2014/06/30/back-to-the-basics-part-1-learning-about-the-powershell-pipeline.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2014/06/3...