> Get-ChildItem . | Sort-Object -Property Length > where is a file and what is the biggest in a folder You don't need to use the full commands and parameters.

> Get-ChildItem . | Sort-Object -Property Length > where is a file and what is the biggest in a folder You don't need to use the full commands and parameters. The commands have aliases, and parameters can be arbitrarily short (and case-insensitive) as long as they are unambiguous: gci . | sort Length gci . -r -inc <filename> Furthermore, the PowerShell interpreter has an extremely powerful autocomplete, so these should be straightforward to look up.