I am running the below Powershell command in order to get the resource usage of each VM.
Measure-VM -Name * | select-object -property VMName, MeteringDuration, AverageProcessorUsage, AverageMemoryUsage, TotalDiskAllocation
My concern is that the result set is being returned as rows instead of having each properties as columns.
RESULT
VMName
MeteringDuration
...
...
EXPECTATION
VMName MeteringDuration ... ...
Since I want to copy the results into excel, I was hoping there's a way to mitigate this. Thanks in advance for the help!
PowerShell will make a best guess at the format when it displays output. If you're exporting to Excel, CSV, any other format, what you see on the screen plays no part at all.
That is, if you have this in the console:
Get-Thing
Property1: one
Property2: two
Property3: three
Running this will still be perfectly normal:
Get-Thing | Export-Csv Things.csv
Just avoid trying to build a file using Format-* and redirect and all will be well.
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I am trying to access some data about Unified Groups using PowerShell.
Get-UnifiedGroup | ? {$_.AccessType -eq "Public"}
This is the command I am using, however I am also trying to export this data to CSV.
So the command becomes
Get-UnifiedGroup | ? {$_.AccessType -eq "Public"} | Export-Csv c:\temp\azureadusers.csv
But it only displays first 1000 results in the csv file and I am trying to get all of the data. I am new to PowerShell so I am still learning this.
How can I achieve this?
you may want too look at the -Filter Parameter too. It's always a good thing to filter as far left as possible. Mostly because it's free Performance gain.
-Filter {AccessType -eq "Public"}
PowerShell cmdlet 'get-ClusterQuorum' output is not showing "QuorumType" column. Has anybody seen this before? Thanks
That is just the normal output for that cmdlet. To see QuorumType, you can use these methods:
$quorum = Get-ClusterQuorum -Cluster CLUSTER
$quorum | Select-Object *
$quorum.QuorumType
$quorum | Format-Table * # For display only
$quorum | Format-List * # For display only
Many cmdlets control which columns get displayed by default, but the underlying properties are still there and can be referenced.
The easiest way to view it is just to run this:
(Get-ClusterQuorum).QuorumType
This is a nice neat little way to do these things on one line without having to create a variable explicitly.
In this post some is surprised that the following example doesn't work properly when run in a script
get-process | select-object cpu, name
dir | Select-Object name, length
When I put this in a script the second command doesn't show the length
And the answer to this:
PowerShell is joining both outputs. You could pipe the first output to
Format-Table [-auto] if you don't mind the format. Alternatively, you
can separate the first output from the following formatted output by
piping it to Out-Default, Out-Host, Out-string or Write-host
Now my question is why is it joining the output of those two seemingly unrelated commands and why doesn't this happen in the interactive console? They are not connected with a pipe. How does this work?
It seems that I still haven't quite understood basic concepts about piping in scripts.
See if this helps: blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2006/04/30/586973.aspx
This issue isn't really the pipeline, but the default console formatting
I am trying to append output to a .txt file. My command is as follows:
ni C:\example\example.txt -type file -value "`n$(Get-Date)"|out-null
$CSVvariable | sort Property | Format-Table | Tee-Object -Append -FilePath C:\example\example.txt
When I run the command I get the following output in the .txt file:
《⼹㔰㈯″㤱㐺㨹
(The table is being presented correctly.)
$(Get-Date) seems to become the above symbols. Anyone have an idea why ?
Thanks in advance.
You don't really want to use format-table inside a pipeline like this. The output of format-table is a collection of "formatting objects" that the host interprets and are pretty much incomprehensible. The last time I checked, they weren't even documented well.
If you really want the table formatting, you can try adding out-string to the pipeline before the tee-object, but at that point you'll have a collection of strings, not "objects".
That's a separate issue from why you got strange characters, but I'd try removing the format-table and see how the file looks.
What is your CultuerInfo?
([System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentCulture).DateTimeFormat
It seems like it might be set to something other than en-US.
I have a binary cmdlet Get-CustomPSObject. When I do something like:
Get-CustomPSObject > a.txt
the result is stored as a plain text, meaning that the Get-CustomPSObject is working fine.
However when I try:
Get-CustomPSObject | Export-csv a.csv
The a.csv file becomes:
"Capacity","Count","IsReadOnly","IsFixedSize","SyncRoot","IsSynchronized"
"4","1","False","False","System.Object","False"
none of these fields are in my PSObject. I've no idea what they stands for. Any thoughts?
Export-CSV takes the first object it recieves to create the headers. Most likely, your Get-CustomPSOjbect runs a method/cmdlet/script that returns an object you didn't save. E.g. you use something like
get-childitem
and not
$files = get-childitem
inside your Get-CustomPSObject function.
EDIT
Okay, so you're cmdlet is a binary cmdlet. Important information. I'm no expert in this, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
When you make a binary cmdlet that can output multiple objects, you need to write them one by one. One of the ideas behind PowerShell is the use of a pipeline that can use objects as they come without waiting for the complete array.
Because of your current "design flaw" in your binary cmdlet, Export-CSV tries to export the array(as one item) to a csv-file and not the elements inside.
You now use this:
WriteObject(list/array of objects)
This is bad. It outputs all objects at the same time.
To fix it, run this at the end of your "object-creation-loop":
WriteObject(mycurrentobject)
This is good. You enable the use of pipeline and every object is sent out one by one when they're created. Export-CSV can then recieve each object and convert them to csv-format.
In your first example using > the output is run through Powershell formatting system while in the second using export-csv it is not.
If you look at get-custompsobject | gm you should see those extra properties that aren't shown in console or sent to your text file.
For export-csv you can control which properties are sent to the csv file using select-object
get-custompsobjct | select-object column1, column2 | export-csv a.csv