PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook

How to do it...

We need a simple script to accomplish this. The assumption made for this recipe is that all names consist of two words, separated by a space. Each line in the input file contains only one name.

Here is the logical flow:

1. Import the content. Get-Content would import the names as an array of strings. However, we will not manipulate this array.
2. Use a foreach loop to go through the names one by one.
3. Split the first name and the last name. (Each FirstName LastName pair will be an array consisting of two strings.)
4. Place the last name, place a comma, and then place the first name.
5. Optionally, output the content to a file.

The following script will accomplish this:

$Names = Get-Content ./ch09/02-names.txt $NewNames = @() foreach ...