In programming, an operator is an object that is used to manipulate an item of data. PowerShell has a wide variety of operators; most of these will be briefly explored within this chapter.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics:

• Arithmetic operators
• Assignment operators
• Comparison operators
• Regular-expression-based operators
• Binary operators
• Logical operators
• Type operators
• Redirection operators
• Other operators