You can sort objects by a single property or multiple properties. Multiple properties use hash tables to sort in ascending order, descending order, or a combination of sort orders. Properties are sorted as case-sensitive or case-insensitive. Use theUniqueparameter to remove duplicates from the out...
In the following example $a is an array of objects.PowerShell Copy $a = 1, 2, 3 $a.Clear() $a | % { $null -eq $_ } Output Copy True True True In this example, $intA is explicitly typed to contain integers.PowerShell Copy ...
TheGroup-Objectcmdlet displays objects in groups based on the value of a specified property. In this example, the calculated property counts the number of files of each content type. PowerShell Get-ChildItem-File|Sort-ObjectExtension |Group-Object-NoElement-Property@{ Expression={switch($_.Exten...
Sort-Object Sorts objects by property values. Split-Path Returns the specified part of a path. Start-Process Starts one or more processes on the local computer. Start-Job Starts a Windows PowerShell background job (PsJob). Start-Transaction Starts a transaction. Start-Service Starts one or mo...
You can sort different properties in different orders using hash tables in an array. Each hash table uses an Expression key to specify the property name as string and an Ascending or Descending key to specify the sort order by $true or $false. The Expression key is mandatory. The Ascending...
Of course, we still have one minor problem: the items in our array aren’t in alphabetical order. Sorting an array in VBScript is an … interesting … experience, to say the least. Here’s how you can sort an array in Windows PowerShell:...
By using this method, the job object is created on the remote computer, so you use remote commands to manage the job. The fourth command uses Get-Job to get the jobs stored on the local computer. The PSJobTypeName property of jobs, introduced in Windows PowerShell 3.0, shows that the ...
values to use when this cmdlet starts the process. Arguments can be accepted as a single string with the arguments separated by spaces, or as an array of strings separated by commas. The cmdlet joins the array into a single string with each element of the array separated by a single space...
In PowerShell version 5 and KB 3000850, Start-Transcript now emits structured objects when you start a transcript (the Path property is useful), and has added much more useful information to its header: The filename now includes the computer that generated the transcript, a ‘hash breaker’ ...
In most cases, it is a unique property and not a unique object that is the object of a query. Because the Get-Unique cmdlet requires sorting objects prior to piping, it is possible to bypass use of the Get-Unique cmdlet by using the Unique switched parameter from the Sort-Object cmdlet...