This is the built-in help made by Microsoft for the command 'Import-Clixml', in PowerShell version 2 - as retrieved from
Windows version 'Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate ' PowerShell help files on 2016-06-23.
For PowerShell version 3 and up, where you have Update-Help, this command was run just before creating the web pages from the help files.
Imports a CLIXML file and creates corresponding objects within Windows PowerShell.
Import-Clixml [-Path] <string[]> [<CommonParameters>]
The Import-Clixml cmdlet imports a CLIXML file with data that represents Microsoft .NET Framework objects and creates the objects in Windows Powe
rShell.
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C:\PS>get-process | export-clixml pi.xml
C:\PS> $processes = import-clixml pi.xml
Description
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This command uses the Export-Clixml cmdlet to save a serialized copy of the process information returned by Get-Process. It then uses Import-Clix
ml to retrieve the contents of the serialized file and re-create an object that is stored in the $processes variable.