Output binary data on PowerShell pipeline

Question

I need to pipe some data to a program\'s stdin.

1. First 4 bytes are a 32 bit unsigned integer representing the length of the data. These 4 bytes are exactly the sam

Answer 1

I need to pipe some data to a program's stdin.

Many complex answers to this simple task. You can indeed cause many problems when using different encodings. Here is a different approach, without any encoding applied by Get-/Set-Content.

You can actually pipe binary data to an external program by using the Start-Process cmdlet pretty easily:

Start-Process my.exe -RedirectStandardInput my.bin

Works at least since PowerShell 2.0.