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PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook

By : Prashanth Jayaram, Ram Iyer
Book Image

PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook

By: Prashanth Jayaram, Ram Iyer

Overview of this book

PowerShell Core, the open source, cross-platform that is based on the open source, cross-platform .NET Core, is not a shell that came out by accident; it was intentionally created to be versatile and easy to learn at the same time. PowerShell Core enables automation on systems ranging from the Raspberry Pi to the cloud. PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook uses simple, real-world examples that teach you how to use PowerShell to effectively administer your environment. As you make your way through the book, you will cover interesting recipes on how PowerShell Core can be used to quickly automate complex, repetitive, and time-consuming tasks. In the concluding chapters, you will learn how to develop scripts to automate tasks that involve systems and enterprise management. By the end of this book, you will have learned about the automation capabilities of PowerShell Core, including remote management using OpenSSH, cross-platform enterprise management, working with Docker containers, and managing SQL databases.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

Sorting the output

It is time for another simple cmdlet, which will build toward the Taking actions on the returned objects recipe. In this recipe, we will sort the output objects to meet our requirements.

How to do it...

We will continue using the directory and the files we created for this book. If all of your files are of size zero bytes, download a few files with content. The file type does not matter:

  1. List out the files in the directory:
PS> Get-ChildItem -Path .
  1. Filter the output so that you have only files:
PS> Get-ChildItem -Path . -File
  1. Pipe the object to the Sort-Object cmdlet to sort the output based on the file size:
PS> Get-ChildItem -Path . -File | Sort-Object -Property Length
  1. The shorthand for...