Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Fourth Edition

11 Formatting: And why it’s done on the right

Let’s quickly review. You know that PowerShell cmdlets produce objects and that those objects often contain more properties than PowerShell shows by default. You know how to use gm to get a list of all of an object’s properties, and you know how to use Select-Object to specify the properties you want to see. Up to this point in the book, you’ve relied on PowerShell’s default configuration and rules to determine how the final output will appear on the screen (or in a file, or in hard-copy form). In this chapter, you’ll learn to override those defaults and create your own formatting for your commands’ output.

11.1 Formatting: Making what you see prettier

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