Output string value from Get-ChildItem

Question

I got the following string from Output sub-folder with the latest write access

Get-ChildItem $FilePath | Sort {$_.LastWriteTime} -Descending | where {$_.PsIsContainer} |Select {$_.Name} -First 1 

But the output is :

$_.Name     
Username

The output I am trying to get is :

Username

I tried formatting the output by :

(Get-ChildItem $FilePath | Sort {$_.LastWriteTime} -Descending | where {$_.PsIsContainer} |Select {$_.Name} -First 1).name

But I'm not sure why it's not working.

Thank you

Answer 1

try this:

Get-ChildItem $filepath | ? { $_.PsIsContainer} | Sort LastWriteTime -Descending | Select -expa  Name -First 1

I've anticipaded the where-object, aka '?' , for better performance.

With select-object the {} are needed only for calculated properties and to avoid the coloumn name use the -expand parameter.