Powershell error - Expressions are only allowed as the first element of a pipeline

Question

I'm learning PowerShell with SharePoint and I found this simple powershell example

$timers = (Get-SPTimerJob | ($_.isDisabled -eq $false) )  
$timers

And I get this error

Expressions are only allowed as the first element of a pipeline.

Can you explain the error/How to fix?

Answer 1

$timers = Get-SPTimerJob | where-object { $_.isDisabled -eq $false }
$timers

Just a little bit of syntax error. Get-SPTimerJob needs to be piped to 'something', the where clause (short hand '?'), and use curly braces {} instead of round braces ().

You can use "?" as an alias for where-object, but for production scripts it's recommended to keep the full command names.

Answer 2

You need to do something like:

$timers = Get-SPTimerJob | where { $_.isDisabled -eq $false }