Get-ChildItem with Pretty Colors (UPDATED)
Cedric Posted a message on the NG (news group) wanting a function like ls for linux. He wanted color while keeping width. I am sure there are other ways to do this, but what I did was created a script (I will convert to a function later) called Get-ChildItemPretty.ps1. The code is at the bottom, but I wanted to point out a few things.
1) It has 3 Parameters and 1 switch
- Dir: This is the Path you want to List (Defaults to $pwd)
- Wide : How Many Colums Wide (Defaults to 3)
- Pad : For Spacing on the Names (Defaults to 30)
- Recurse : Switch to Recurse
- Passtru : outputs objects
2) By default this colors Folders Blue and Exe’s Red, but you could add what ever colors and extentions you want.
3) I have thought about adding a Sort option to Sort by Name or by Type (what do you think?)
4) You could add -full switch that would return fullname instead of just name.
5) You could add -output switch that would return objects as well for pipeline parsing.
### UPDATED ###
Working with /\/\0\/\/ (mostly MOW really) we came up with a better way using $host.UI
This adds a PassTru to output objects
#
# /\/\o\/\/ 2007
# www.thePowerShellGuy.com
function List-Wide { param ($dir=$pwd,$Column=3,[Switch]$PassTru,[Switch]$recurse)
$origFg = $host.ui.rawui.foregroundColor
if($recurse)
{
$list = get-ChildItem $dir -recurse
}
else
{
$list = get-ChildItem $dir
}
foreach ($Item in $list)
{
Switch ($Item.Extension)
{
".Exe" {$foregroundColor = "Yellow"}
".cmd" {$foregroundColor = "Green"}
".ps1" {$foregroundColor = "Red"}
".vbs" {$foregroundColor = "Red"}
Default {$foregroundColor = $origFg}
}
if ($item.PSISContainer) {$foregroundColor = "Blue"}
$max = \[int\]($Host.UI.RawUI.WindowSize.Width / $Column)
$field = ($item.name.padRight($max).Substring(0,($Max -1)) + ‘ ‘)
if ($item.name.length -gt $max -1)
{
$field = $field.Substring(0,($Max -3)) + ‘\*\*\*’
}
if ($Host.UI.RawUI.WindowSize.Width – $host.UI.RawUI.CursorPosition.X -lt $max)
{
$host.ui.WriteLine()
}
$Host.UI.Write($foregroundColor,$host.ui.rawui.BackgroundColor,$field)
if ($PassTru)
{
$Item
}
}
$Host.UI.WriteLine()
}
Old Version
tshell :: Jul.10.2007 ::
Powershell, functions ::
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