Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

Sorting and filtering

One of the great features of PowerShell is its ability to sort and filter objects. This filtering can be used to limit a larger result set and reporting only the information necessary.

This section will review several methods of filtering and sorting data.

How to do it...

1. To explore the filtering capabilities of PowerShell, we look at the running processes on our computer. We then use the Where clause to filter the results.

   Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq "chrome"}
   Get-Process | Where-Object Name -eq "chrome"
   Get-Process | Where-Object Name -like "*hrom*"
   Get-Process | Where-Object Name -ne "chrome"  
   Get-Process | Where-Object Handles -gt 1000

2. To view sorting in PowerShell, we again view the processes on our computer and ...