Bitwise Operators

If you find yourself needing binary or bitwise operations, PowerShell has the requisite operators as shown in Table 6.4:

Table 6.4: PowerShell Bitwise Operators
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Operator	Definition
-band	binary and
-bor	binary or
-bnot	binary not

The underlying binary math is beyond the scope of this book. However, here are some examples if you need to perform a bitwise comparison:

 PS C:\> 255 -band 255 255 PS C:\> 255 -band 150 150 PS C:\> 32 -bor 16 48 PS C:\> 

In each case the value that is returned from the comparison is the digital equivalent of the underlying bitwise operation.