Is there anything in that pipeline?
One operation I frequently perform is use a powershell pipeline to filter out a large set of data. Typically I don't care what is in the result but rather is there actually anything left in the pipeline. I can't find a good powershell built-in to perform this task so I use the following filter.
function Test-Any() {
begin {
$any = $false
}
process {
$any = $true
}
end {
$any
}
}
Now I can easily write
$any = Some-Command | ?{ Some-Condition } | test-any