Sort-Object

SafeSort objects

... | Sort-Object <prop> -Descending

Sorts by property — by size, by date. -Unique dedupes in the same pass.

Examples

gci C:\logs | sort LastWriteTime -desc | select -First 1010 most recent files

Syntax

<cmd> | Sort-Object <prop> [-Descending] [-Unique]

Before you run it

Read only.

Related commands

Select-ObjectPick properties/rows
Measure-ObjectCount and sum

The same reference, with no signal at all

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