Mar 21 2017
Count Results in PowerShell
I was astonished to see PowerShell would display nothing when it should count 0 or 1.
Here’s a screenshot retrieving the number of AD accounts.
Instead use the Measure cmdLet and select the count value:
C:\>(Get-ADUser -filter {SamAccountName -like "dron*"} |
select SamAccountName | measure).count
1
Another useful command:
The “tee” command lets you store the result set into a variable and its number of elements into another:
C:\>$accountnb = (Get-ADUser -filter {SamAccountName -like "dr*"} |
select SamAccountName |
tee -Variable accounts | measure).count
C:\>$accountnb
3
C:\>$accounts
SamAccountName
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draguene
drondy
droze