concept positional parameter in category powershell

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There are some tricks to using positional parameters:

It’s OK to mix and match positional parameters with those that require their names. Positional parameters must always be in the correct positions. For example, Get-Item ~ -Filter * is legal; ~ will be fed to the -Path parameter because that value is in the first position, and * will go with the -Filter parameter because the parameter name was used.

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Figure 1.3. The anatomy of a basic command. It begins with the name of the command, followed by parameters. These may be switch parameters that take no arguments, regular parameters that take arguments, or positional parameters where the matching parameter is inferred by the argument’s position on the command line.