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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by DHowett on Thursday August 18, 2016 @11:43PM (#12317844)

By default, an object at the end of a pipeline will be printed to the screen in tabular format.

    (australis) ~\Desktop % Get-ItemProperty e
        Directory: C:\Users\Dustin\Desktop
    Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
    ----                -------------         ------ ----
    d-----        8/12/2016   9:06 AM                e

I believe types can specify which columns to display by default; if you want more info, there's always `Format-List`:

    (australis) ~\Desktop % Get-ItemProperty e | format-list
        Directory: C:\Users\Dustin\Desktop
    
    Name           : e
    CreationTime   : 8/11/2016 10:58:56 PM
    LastWriteTime  : 8/12/2016 9:06:13 AM
    LastAccessTime : 8/12/2016 9:06:13 AM
    Mode           : d-----
    LinkType       :
    Target         : {}

It's also possible to format any object via `ConvertTo-JSON`:

    (australis) ~\Desktop % Get-ItemProperty e | ConvertTo-JSON
    {
        "Name":  "e",
        "Parent":  {
                       "Name":  "Desktop",
                       "Parent":  {
                                      "Name":  "Dustin",
                                      "Parent":  "Users",
                                      "Exists":  true,
                                      "Root":  "C:\\",
                                      "FullName":  "C:\\Users\\Dustin",
                                      "Extension":  "",
  ...

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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by useerup on Friday August 19, 2016 @10:22AM (#12320174)

> I believe types can specify which columns to display by default;

Indeed, the default view (table/list/custom) can be specified, and for the view the default properties can be specified.

Consider how 'ls' produces a sequence of FileSystemInfo objects (when run against a disk file system). The view specifies that the list be grouped by "parent".

On the terminal this gives a nice list a la:

        Directory: C:\Dell\Drivers\T7MFF\PhysX\files\Engine\v2.8.0


    Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
    ----                -------------         ------ ----
    -a----       12-12-2014     07:42         362232 NxCooking.dll
    -a----       12-12-2014     07:42        5520120 PhysXCore.dll


        Directory: C:\Dell\Drivers\T7MFF\PhysX\files\Engine\v2.8.1


    Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
    ----                -------------         ------ ----
    -a----       12-12-2014     07:42         363256 NxCooking.dll
    -a----       12-12-2014     07:42        5823736 PhysXCore.dll


        Directory: C:\Dell\Drivers\T7MFF\PhysX\files\Engine\v2.8.3


    Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
    ----                -------------         ------ ----
    -a----       12-12-2014     07:42         339192 PhysXCooking.dll
    -a----       12-12-2014     07:42         412408 PhysXCooking64.dll
    -a----       12-12-2014     07:42        5952248 PhysXCore64.dll

However, the underlying stream is still just a continous stream of FileSystemInfo's. It is the terminal display format definition that causes it formatting to break and write a directory heading whenever the next item has a different parent from the previous one.

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