lpatalas/showcolumns

Prettier Get-ChildItem replacement and ability to display lists of objects in columns

ShowColumns

ShowColumns provides prettier Get-ChildItem replacement and ability to display lists of objects in columns.

Available cmdlets are:

• Show-Columns - displays any data piped into it in columns with auto-calculated widths.
• Show-ChildItemColumns - invokes Get-ChildItem with given parameters and displays results using Show-Columns.

Example

Installation

Install module from PowerShell Gallery:

Install-Module ShowColumns -Scope CurrentUser

Then import module in your PowerShell profile and overwrite ls alias:

Import-Module ShowColumns
Set-Alias ls Show-ChildItemColumns -Option AllScope

Features

• Automatic calculation of column widths based on available screen space
• Ability to display any property either by name or using arbitrary expression
• Ability to group items by property value or expression
• Ability to configure colors and text decoration based on input objects
• Drop-in replacement for Get-ChildItem cmdlet for convenient use

Documentation

See docs/ShowColumns.md for module documentation.

showcolumns's Issues

Invalid blank line is present after row which fits the console width exactly

Typo in `Show-Columns -ItemStyle` documentation: 'received' => 'receives'

Typo in Show-Columns -Property parameter documentation

If returned value is not of type String then ToString() methos is called on it to get actual label.

methos should be method.

`-Property` parameter should not be required

By default it should display item converted to string.

How to set alias for Show-ChildItemColumns

Hello, thanks for the project. I want to set alias for the command with some parameters.
Here is what I did

function ls_alias { Show-ChildItemColumns -exclude .* $args}
Set-Alias -Name ls -Value ls_alias  -Option AllScope

the $args does not seem to work correctly. I managed to get the first parameters passed in. But I cannot get it fully working correctly. Sorry I'm not familiar with powershell. Could you help me with the alias?

Show-Columns -Property parameter should be positional

Currently it's hard to use from interactive prompt.

Input is grouped incorrectly when it's not ordered by full path