How can I sort and display groups when using dsquery in powershell?

Question

I am using this line of code in powershell and it works but it displays too much. I am trying to find and display where the group that contains "Avecto" in the name.

dsquery user -samid MyUSerName| dsget user -memberof | dsget group -samid

Is there anyway to add that on this script statement?

Answer 1

Use the where keyword in PS (shorthanded here as ?)

dsquery user -samid MyUSerName| dsget user -memberof | dsget group -samid | ? {$_ -match 'avecto'}

So it would read where each item in the pipeline matches the string 'Avecto'

You could store the data into a variable and manipulate further, as just a simple Object array will be returned if more than one result, otherwise in a single result it will just be a string