How it works…

PowerShell reads content from the filesystem as objects, not as text. Therefore, you perform a selection of the desired columns (or, as we shall later see, properties) directly. Bash, on the other hand, outputs text, columns from which are manipulated using a delimiter.

To demonstrate that this is the case, we created a new subdirectory with a space in its name, and we performed the column selection just like we did before, only in this case we did not get the complete name of the new subdirectory. This is because the name contained a whitespace, which is a delimiter in awk.