{"id":3269,"date":"2013-07-07T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/07\/07\/powertip-find-unique-types-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2013-07-07T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-unique-types-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-unique-types-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find Unique Types with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/strong>: Learn an easy command to help find unique types with Windows PowerShell.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I filter different types of objects from a command so that I have an example of each unique type?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, If you use the Get-Unique<\/strong> cmdlet with no switched parameters, many of the objects returned are the same type (the DirectoryInfo<\/strong> objects in this example):<\/p>\n

PS C:> Get-ChildItem | Get-Unique<\/p>\n

    Directory: C:<\/p>\n

Mode                LastWriteTime     Length Name<\/p>\n

—-                ————-     —— —-<\/p>\n

d—-         6\/17\/2013   1:00 PM            Afolder<\/p>\n

d—-         6\/17\/2013   1:00 PM            Bfolder<\/p>\n

d-r–          6\/2\/2013  10:56 PM            data<\/p>\n

d—-          3\/9\/2013   6:35 PM            DRIVERS<\/p>\n

<output truncated><\/p>\n

  If you use the Get-Unique<\/strong> cmdlet with the –OnType<\/strong> switch, only one example of each of the type of object returns (a FileInfo<\/strong> object and a DirectoryInfo<\/strong> object in this example):<\/p>\n

PS C:> Get-ChildItem | Get-Unique -OnType<\/p>\n

    Directory: C:<\/p>\n

Mode                LastWriteTime     Length Name<\/p>\n

—-                ————-     —— —-<\/p>\n

d—-         6\/17\/2013   1:00 PM            Afolder<\/p>\n

-a—          3\/9\/2013   7:29 PM    4627788 MSIInstall.log<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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