PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook

How to do it...

Here is an outline of the steps you will want to take:

1. Get all of the files at the path specified
2. Group all of the files by file type (extension)
3. Filter out those groups that contain more than one item
4. Expand each group, and sort the files by size (length)
5. Pick the two largest files in each group
6. Delete the files

While we are working on a sandbox directory, and since we are taking precautions so that we don't delete anything important, it is still better to only prototype the action using ShouldPerform (the WhatIf parameter). This way, the files won't actually be deleted, and PowerShell will only tell you what it would do if the command is run.

Let's get cracking:

1. List the contents of the current directory and group the ...