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Glowie
Glowie

Reputation: 2309

Output string value from Get-ChildItem

I got the following string from Output sub-folder with the latest write access

Get-ChildItem $FilePath | Sort {$_.LastWriteTime} -Descending | where {$_.PsIsContainer} |Select {$_.Name} -First 1

But the output is :

$_.Name     
Username

The output I am trying to get is :

Username

I tried formatting the output by :

(Get-ChildItem $FilePath | Sort {$_.LastWriteTime} -Descending | where {$_.PsIsContainer} |Select {$_.Name} -First 1).name

But I'm not sure why it's not working.

Thank you

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1591

Answers (1)

CB.
CB.

Reputation: 60910

try this:

Get-ChildItem $filepath | ? { $_.PsIsContainer} | Sort LastWriteTime -Descending | Select -expa  Name -First 1

I've anticipaded the where-object, aka '?' , for better performance.

With select-object the {} are needed only for calculated properties and to avoid the coloumn name use the -expand parameter.

Upvotes: 5

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