Simplify Where-Object to filter multiple same object

Question

How would you simplify the following script?

Get-ADComputer -Filter * -properties * | Where-Object {
  $_.OperatingSystem -like "*2003*" -and
  $_.OperatingSystem -like "*2008*" -and
  $_.OperatingSystem -like "*2012*"
} | sort name | ft name, description, OperatingSystem

I've been looking for a while on this one and would like some help. I know I could simplify by using "*20*" and I will get my result but I'd like to know how to use multiple criteria (i.e. XP, Windows 10, etc.).

Maybe a quibble, but what you have there is never going to return anything as long as those conditions are ANDed instead of ORed. — mjolinor
– mjolinor, Commented Jan 5, 2016 at 11:34

Matt · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-05 14:40:56Z

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you could use -match operator with a regex pattern

...|?{$_.operatingsystem -match "2008|2012|XP" }

Know that ? is an alias for Where-Object. See the output of Get-Alias for more of these.

edited Jan 5, 2016 at 14:40

Matt

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answered Jan 5, 2016 at 11:18

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Gaetan Over a year ago

I was looking for the acknowledgement. Done

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