Sorting in Powershell except few output

Question

I have multiple services. Suppose i starts with A . When I execute

Get-Service A* - It will display services as output starting with A.

I am sorting complete output except one and want that to be on top of my list once sorted. I am using below command.

Get-Service -DisplayName A* |Sort-Object {$_.Name -ne 'AK'}

It is listing all output in sorted way and AK is on top Like below .

AK
AN
AR
AS

and so on . This is only keeping AK on top and sorting others. I want to do same thing for 2 services. AK and then AR(suppose)- This both should be always in AK and AR order at top then other services need to sort. How to add this in existing code for AR.

MicroScripter · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-28 11:54:47Z

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Try the -notin Operator, you can specify an array of excludes:

Get-Service A* | Sort-Object {$_.name -notin "AK","AR"}

This way the AK and AR service will be on top of the sorted list

EDIT: for V2 simple and easy:

Get-Service A* | Sort-Object {"AK","AR" -notcontains $_.name}

edited Jul 28, 2016 at 11:54

answered Jul 28, 2016 at 10:52

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RonyA Over a year ago

When running it is saying "You must provide a value expression on the right-side of the '-' operator"

MicroScripter Over a year ago

What powershell version are you on?

RonyA Over a year ago

I have v2 in some machine and v4 in some machine. -ne was working on both for 1 to exclude .

Paweł Dyl · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-28 11:57:50Z

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You need -notin and ():

'AK','AN','AR','AS' | sort {$_ -notin ('AN', 'AS')}

Or with PS 2.0:

'AK','AN','AR','AS' | sort {[Array]::IndexOf(('AN', 'AS'), $_) -eq -1}

Or (thanks to @Mathias):

'AK','AN','AR','AS' | sort {('AN', 'AS') -notcontains $_}

edited Jul 28, 2016 at 11:57

answered Jul 28, 2016 at 11:01

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Paweł Dyl Over a year ago

I added V2 script.

Mathias R. Jessen Over a year ago

You could use -notcontains as well: sort { ('AN', 'AS') -notcontains $_ }

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