Powershell pipeline question.

Hi,

I am trying to understand how why the two bits of code return extra columns

if I execute

$a = get-process
$b = $a | select-object $_
$b

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I get the following columns displayed:

Handles NPM(K) PM(K) WS(K) VM(M) CPU(s) Id ProcessName

However if I want to add a custom column to the object:

The only code I can get to work is something like this.

$a = Get-Process
$b = $a | select-object @{Name="Custom1";Expression={"Test"}},*
$b

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However this outputs all of the properties. How can I pass the pipeline
from the $a and only include the default properties PSStandardMembers.

I realize I could just change the * to list the fields that I want
but I can curious to see if there another way to do what I want.

So I can understand the pipeline more.

Thanks,

Ward.

whorsfall

Asked: 2013-10-31

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Dale HarrisProfessional Services EngineerCommented: 2013-10-31

I think it's more of a hack, but you can return the default property set like this:

$Defaults = $a.psstandardmembers.defaultdisplaypropertyset.referencedpropertynames

Then add anything additional you want here:
$Defaults += "MachineName"

Now when you do this, it works:
$a | select $Defaults

And to make it appear a little cleaner:

$a | select $defaults | ft

HTH,

Dale Harris

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