21.16. Every Export Has a Corresponding Import

Everything in this chapter so far has concentrated on output, which shouldn't be a surprise as a lot of work in PowerShell is getting information from somewhere and displaying it. The other side of the coin—input—tends to be a smaller part of the story.

First of all, the Export- Cmdlets you have just seen have companion Import- Cmdlets, so information exported with Export-CliXML can be imported directly with import-CliXML, and the result will be a facsimile of the original objects. For example, the following: