Can Windows Powershell pipes send plain text instead of objects?

[Peter Frank]

I'm interested in how Windows Powershell compares with BASH. I haven't learnt Powershell, but I read some review articles online and found the main difference is that Powershell is based on objects, and its pipelines transfer objects. However, is it possible to use the pipeline to send plain text (just like in BASH) to CLI programs that can only deal with plain text and do not understand .NET objects? Thanks in advance.