left alignment the output of a powershell command

Question

I am running the following command, and I would like to align the output to the left...just can't figure it out:

Basically, this is providing me the size of a specific directory and it is right aligned.

Get-ChildItem c:\users\xxx\desktop -recurse | Measure-Object -property length -sum|Select-object @{Name="Total size GB "; Expression={$_.Sum / 1GB}} >> c:\users\xxx\desktop\pwr\bkp.txt

Solution 1

Replace your Select-Object with Format-Table like this:

Format-Table -Property @{ Name="Size in GB"; Expression={$_.Sum / 1GB }; Alignment="left"; }

Solution 2

Quick & dirty - format it as a table, auto-sized:

Get-ChildItem c:\users\xxx\desktop -recurse |
    Measure-Object -property length -sum|
    format-table -autosize @{Name="Total size GB "; Expression={$_.Sum / 1GB}} >> c:\users\xxx\desktop\pwr\bkp.txt

But I prefer to use out-file instead of redirection:

Get-ChildItem c:\users\xxx\desktop -recurse |
    Measure-Object -property length -sum|
    format-table @{Name="Total size GB "; Expression={$_.Sum / 1GB}} -autosize |
    | out-file -append -path c:\users\xxx\desktop\pwr\bkp.txt