E.g. instead of the script presented in the article: (Get-ChildItem -Filter '*.txt' | ForEach-Object { $_.Length } | Measure-Object -Sum).Sum You can do

E.g. instead of the script presented in the article: (Get-ChildItem -Filter '*.txt' | ForEach-Object { $_.Length } | Measure-Object -Sum).Sum You can do ls *.txt | measure -Sum Length | % Sum