PowerShell for IT Professionals [#6] – Filtering output
Exercises List all services that are stopped List all service that are stopped and they name begins with W Display only the Display Name of services that stopped and their name begins with W Lesson notes ### Filtering # Some commands accept wild cards in the search or have a filter parameter Get-Service -Name w*,b* #But there's more universal method, based on property names Get-Service | Where-Object -Filter {$_.Status -eq 'running' } #So let's break it down #Where-Object allows to filter out the incoming object based on the comparation operator #Most popular operators are: -eq - Equals -ne - Not equals -gt - Greather than -lt - Less then -le - Less than or equal -ge - Greater than or equal -Like -Not like #There are more many, you can check these help topics: Help about_Operators Help about_Comparison_Operators #$_ is current object; it's what we're piping in our case Get-Service # ....