Commands / Text and objects

PS> Get-Process | Out-GridView

Works on

Windows

PowerShell

5.1 and later

Reference

Microsoft Learn: Out-GridView

• PowerShell 7 Built in on Windows. On Linux and macOS, install the Microsoft.PowerShell.ConsoleGuiTools module and use Out-ConsoleGridView instead.

Opens a window with your results as a table. Click a column to sort, or type in the filter box. Nothing in the pipeline is changed.

Pick rows and keep going

With -PassThru, the rows you select and confirm with OK continue down the pipeline. That turns it into a simple picker:

Get-Service | Where-Object Status -eq 'Running' | Out-GridView -PassThru | Restart-Service -WhatIf

-Title sets the window title. -OutputMode Single allows only one choice.

Try this

Get-ChildItem -Path .\docs -Recurse -File | Select-Object Name, Length, LastWriteTime | Out-GridView -Title 'Files in docs'

Related commands

• Write-Output Print a message (Write-Output vs Write-Host)
• Add-Content Append text to a file
• Set-Clipboard Copy output to the clipboard
• Where-Object Filter objects in the pipeline
• Set-Content Overwrite a text file

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