Commands / Text and objects

PS> Get-ChildItem -File | Measure-Object -Property Length -Sum

Works on

WindowsLinuxmacOS

PowerShell

5.1 and later

Reference

Microsoft Learn: Measure-Object

Without parameters it counts. With -Property Length -Sum it adds file sizes. Also supports -Average, -Minimum, -Maximum, and -Line / -Word / -Character for text.

Try this

Get-Content -Path .\notes.txt | Measure-Object -Line -Word

Coming from another shell

More in From bash and From cmd.

Related commands

• Compare-Object Compare two lists
• Where-Object Filter objects in the pipeline
• Group-Object Group objects by a property
• Select-Object Pick properties or the first N objects
• ForEach-Object Run a block on each object

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