Get-Unique not working as expected

[mtartaglia]

I have a bunch of files in a folder from a few years back that I want to parse through and list just the years. The catch is I only want to list each year once so I can use that list in another part of my script. What happens is it only lists one year. Here is the code:


$items = get-childitem -Path c:\logfiles\ -recurse

$years = Get-ChildItem -Path $sourcepath\$folder | Select -Property {$_.LastWriteTime.Year} |get-unique


When I look at the variable $years it just lists 2016. I have confirmed that there are files form 2017 and 2018 as well.

To just summarize what I want to list is the following from a list of hundreds of files.

2015
2016
2017
2018

any help would be appreciated as I have never used the get-unique cmdlet before.

[jvierra]

I think this is what you are trying to do:

Get-ChildItem | Select @{n='Year';e={$_.LastWriteTime.Year }} -Unique

[mtartaglia]

I was looking at it all wrong apparently. Thank you. that should work just fine.