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PowerShell Add Custom Result Property


PowerShell has its own or default format of displaying the results or the output of the cmdlets or PowerShell commands.

However, PowerShell is customisable, and the output property can be modified.

Example below, gets the name of the file and display the date only without the time.

PowerShell code snippet below filter a single  and gets its lastwrite date.

get-childitem "C:\Users\ps_testing\Documents" -filter IMXP2611.jpg -recurse |  select Directory, Name, @{Name="LastWriteDate";
  Expression={$_.LastWriteTime.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd")}} | ft -wrap


This can be modified using wildchars like "*", which filters all "jpg" regardless of filename.

get-childitem "C:\Users\ps_testing\Documents" -filter *.jpg -recurse |  select Directory, Name, @{Name="LastWriteDate";
  Expression={$_.LastWriteTime.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd")}} | ft -wrap
LastWriteDate == is a custom label for the output

yyyy-MM-dd == is a custom format that display only the date in year, month and day format

 @{Name="LastWriteDate";   Expression={$_.LastWriteTime.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd")}} == is where the customisation takes place



Sample Output:

Directory                      Name               LastWriteDate 
---------                           ----                   -------------
C:\Users\ ps_testing \Documents IMXP2611.jpg 2019-09-22 


Well, that is just a basic example. Play around with the “expression” property for other possible options.


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