Vista - formatting output column width

I grabbed this code from someone's website to help learn PS.

Seems like it would be very handy--it recurses the home directory and lists
the size of subdirectories.

But the output colum for Path is truncated and displays ... so the script is
nearly worthless for telling me what the path is...

Any tips to get it to display the full name or change the width of the
column?

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Get-Childitem $home | Where-Object { $_.PSisContainer } |

ForEach-Object {

Write-Progress 'Examining Folder' ($_.FullName); $_ } |

ForEach-Object { $result = '' |

Select-Object Path, Count, Size;

$result.path = $_.FullName;

$temp = Get-Childitem $_.FullName -recurse -ea SilentlyContinue |

Measure-Object length -sum -ea SilentlyContinue ;

$result.count = $temp.Count;

$result.Size = $temp.Sum;

$result

}

Try adding at the end:
|Format-Table -AutoSize

So you have:
....
}|Format-Table -AutoSize

Marco

Oh, thank you, I've now discovered the Format-* commands!

"Marco Shaw [MVP]" <marco.shaw@xxxxxx_SPAMgmail.com> wrote in message
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I've also created this small function which is really useful when you want
to set the size of the buffer. For example, I recently started using
PowerShell scripts in my Visual Studio post-build events and the output
would get truncated at 80 chars in the output window. All I had to do to fix
it was call my Set-WindowBuffer function to specify a width of 300 chars.

##############################################################################
#.SYNOPSIS
# Sets the width and/or height of the console's window buffer which can be
# used to set a large scrollback buffer so that information isn't lost.
#
#.PARAMETER Width
# The buffer width, in characters. If not set, the width is unchanged.
#
#.PARAMETER Height
# The buffer height, in characters. If not set, the height is unchanged.
#
#.EXAMPLE
# Set-WindowBuffer -Width 500
# Set-WindowBuffer -Width 500 -Height 5000
##############################################################################
function Set-WindowBuffer($Width, $Height) {

$ErrorActionPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'

trap { Write-Warning 'Could not set window buffer size.' }

$size = $Host.UI.RawUI.BufferSize

if ( $Width ) { $size.Width = $Width }
if ( $Height ) { $size.Height = $Height }

$Host.UI.RawUI.BufferSize = $size

}


Josh

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