When my brother saw me exploring awk, he said, "Boy, have we overused this command!". Of course, not everything displayed on the screen is important—or even necessary. In this recipe, we will learn how to separate columns in PowerShell without using the Linux command awk.
Selecting columns from the output
Getting ready
Go to a directory that has some files that we can play with. If you do not have such a directory, create one and create some files in there. Let the files be of different extensions so that we can use them in future recipes as well.
If you have not already, clone the Git repository, which you can find at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/PowerShell-6.0-Linux-Administration-Cookbook. There is...