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How to get a PowerShell pipeline to emit plain text, not objects
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When invoking from PowerShell, you can pass a stream of file names in a pipeline as follows:
ls VP_CLIENT/*.sql -rec | select -expand FullName | py ../InternalTools/Export-VP_DDL/fix-anonymous-sequences.py
(The ``select -expand`` is key -- The list of filenames will appear on this script's stdin as lines of text.)
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