Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting - Third Edition

The Select-Object command

Select-Object is most frequently used to limit the properties returned by a command. The command is extremely versatile as it enables you to do the following:

• Limit the properties returned by a command by name:

Get-Process | Select-Object -Property Name, Id 

• Limit the properties returned from a command using wildcards:

Get-Process | Select-Object -Property Name, *Memory 

• List everything but a few properties:

Get-Process | Select-Object -Property * -Exclude *Memory* 

• Get the first few objects:

Get-ChildItem C:\ -Recurse | Select-Object -First 2

• Get the last few objects:

Get-ChildItem C:\ | Select-Object -Last 3 

• Skip items at the beginning. In this example, this returns the fifth item:

Get-ChildItem C:\ ...