# Counting and Grouping: Measure-Object and Group-Object

Measure-Object counts the objects a pipeline hands it and adds up, averages or finds the largest of one property, such as the total size of every file, and Group-Object sorts objects into piles by a property, such as one pile per file type, each with a count.

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- Category: PowerShell
- Level: Apprentice
- Tags: byte, group-object, measure-object, operating-system, powershell
- Updated: November 10, 2026

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