Christos Polydorou

Today I going to write about a little trick I'm using when I want to check the number of objects a PowerShell command returned. If you execute a PowerShell command that returns some kind of objects, you either get a single object or an array of objects. The array object has a property called "Count" that will return the number of items in the array but what if the command returns a single object? Depending on the implementation of the command that returns the objects,  There is no count property on a single object -and if there is, it's probably irrelevant and will result in a bug. Using the logic below you can check if the variable "copies" is an array and if not, create an array with the object in the variable. if ( $copies -isnot [System.Array] ){ $copies = @ ( $copies )} You can also create an array when assigning the result to the variable like: $copies = @ ( Get-ChildItem ) The newer versions of PowerShell will allow you to use the ...