Grouping the output

There are situations where we could group the objects that were given as output so that we could handle each group better, or simply so that we get a more organized output. In this recipe, we will look at passing the output of one cmdlet through the pipeline to Group-Object and group the output based on a property.

How to do it...

To group objects based on a property, we will use the Get-ChildItem cmdlet on the files that we created for use in this book:

1. Navigate to the location where you created or downloaded the files:

PS> Set-Location ~/random

2. List out only the files (exclude the directories):

PS> Get-ChildItem -Path . -File

Alternatively, you can use the shorthand version:

PS> gci -File...