Wouldn't you need wildcards?
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Michael Leone <[email protected]> wrote:
> OK, I will admit to being dense today. I have a user in AD, and we
> have apparently spelled his first name wrong. Easily fixed manually.
> But I decided to use this as a test case, to see if I could find him
> using a Powershell search. And I kept failing. Then I noticed this:
>
> > $Right = "Azarael"
> > $Wrong = "Azrael"
> > $Right -like $wrong
> False
>
> No wonder my filtering was failing, I was trying for "givenName -like
> $Right", figuring I would catch him, and then replace the incorrect
> spelling.
>
> Get-QADuser -SizeLimit 0 -Enabled | Where-Object {($_.givenName -like
> "Azarael")}
>
>
> But why is it wrong? From looking at it, shouldn't the comparison be
> "True"? There's only a 1 letter difference between the 2, isn't that
> enough to qualify as "-like"?
>
> What comparison should I be using, so that looking for "Azarael" finds
> "Azrael"?
>
>
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