Support human-readable file size output about get-childitemcolor HOT 3 CLOSED

Hi -

This looks interesting. I only tried the second example from the link you provided. It does not work if you use it like this:

Get-ChildItemColor  | Select-Object Name, @{Name="Size";Expression={Format-FileSize($_.Length)}}

because Get-ChildItemColor just changes $Host.UI.RawUI.ForegroundColor right before printing an item, and the pipe will not get the color information.

However, if you do the following:

Function Format-FileSize() {
    Param ([int]$size)
    If     ($size -gt 1TB) {[string]::Format("{0:0.00} TB", $size / 1TB)}
    ElseIf ($size -gt 1GB) {[string]::Format("{0:0.00} GB", $size / 1GB)}
    ElseIf ($size -gt 1MB) {[string]::Format("{0:0.00} MB", $size / 1MB)}
    ElseIf ($size -gt 1KB) {[string]::Format("{0:0.00} kB", $size / 1KB)}
    ElseIf ($size -gt 0)   {[string]::Format("{0:0.00} B", $size)}
    Else                   {""}
}

$Host.UI.RawUI.ForegroundColor = "Red"

Get-ChildItem | Select-Object Name, @{Name="Size";Expression={Format-FileSize($_.Length)}}

You will see that everything is red now, so one way to do this is creating a function which incorporates the coloring as well as Select-Object Name, @{Name="Size";Expression={Format-FileSize($_.Length)}} part.

Unfortunately I don't have time to implement this at the moment, but I would be happy to accept a PR if you want to open one. I'm sorry!

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Hi,
thanks for you reply :) I'm afraid I'm not very capable when it comes to more complex PowerShell stuff - maybe I'll to get it working if I find the time. Cheers, Jan

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Hi,

I just incorporated PSColor's implementation, and this should be working now.

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