Questions[formatting](server)

I found a PowerShell script that I thought I could adapt to my purposes.

It contains this line that formats the output:

$largeSizefiles = get-ChildItem -path $filesLocation -include $Extension -recurse -ErrorAction "SilentlyContinue" | ? { $_.GetType().Name -eq "FileInfo" } | where-Object {$_.Length -gt $fileSize} | sort-Object -property length  | Select-Object Name, @{Name="Size In KB";Expression={ "{0:N0}" -f ($_.Length / 1KB)}},@{Name="LastWriteTime";Expression={$_.LastWriteTime}},@{Name="Path";Expression={$_.directory}} -first $filesLimit

The key part seems to be this:

Select-Object Name, @{Name="Size In KB";Expression={ "{0:N0}" -f ($_.Length / 1KB)}},@{Name="LastWriteTime";Expression={$_.LastWriteTime}},@{Name="Path";Expression={$_.directory}} -first $filesLimit

I have read the ss64.com tutorial on Select-Object, but I don't find anything to explain how the expressions of the form @{.....} are formatting the text.

The ss64.com page on the @ operator shows it in the format of @( ... ), with parens, not braces.

The code above results in the following output:

Name          : RPI-Image-1-Copy.img
Size In MB    : 29,477
Path          : D:\VirtualDriveShare
LastWriteTime : 8/18/2015 6:27:51 PM

I'm familiar with a number of programming languages, but this is non-obvious to me, and I haven't found any clear explanation online. Can anyone point me to a good tutorial?

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It was running Ubuntu Server

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Is it possible to somehow configure PowerShell to add a new line after executing a command? IronPython and other console programs which I use doesn't always finish it's output with a \n and because of that the PowerShell prompt will appear at the middle of the line.

This is what I get:

PS D:\Test> ipy test.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 1, in <module>
RuntimeError: *** ERROR ***PS D:\Test\bin>  <---------- MIDDLE OF LINE PROMPT

This is what I would like:

PS D:\Test> ipy test.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 1, in <module>
RuntimeError: *** ERROR ***
PS D:\Test\bin>                            <---------- NEW LINE PROMPT