Using Get-ChildItem and passing in a filesystem path object results in a directory listing:
15:20:37|# get-childitem .
Directory: D:Documents and Settings200018252
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
—- ————- —— —-
d—- 7/15/2011 8:15 AM .ssh
d—- 3/9/2011 12:42 PM Connect
d—- 7/29/2011 8:04 AM Desktop
d—- 3/4/2011 12:19 PM Favorites
d-r– 7/30/2011 3:07 PM My Documents
d—- 7/26/2011 8:10 AM pentadactyl
d-r– 7/30/2011 11:39 AM Start Menu
d—- 6/14/2011 11:31 AM Sun
d—- 3/15/2011 10:59 AM Tracing
d—- 3/10/2011 1:14 PM vimperator
-a— 7/17/2011 10:23 AM 0 .tora.tse
-a— 3/23/2011 2:57 PM 72080 g2mdlhlpx.exe
-a— 7/25/2011 1:41 PM 247 librariesDesktop.properties
-a— 7/25/2011 1:33 PM 153 librariesDesktopSession.properties
-a— 5/11/2011 11:07 AM 12114 networkDriveMapping.vbs
-a— 7/2/2011 6:12 PM 10 tryme.cmd
-a— 7/6/2011 12:06 PM 39 z.cmd
-a— 7/6/2011 12:06 PM 39 z.cmd~
-a— 7/30/2011 12:27 PM 13997 _viminfo
However, this listing has five lines of header information which I'd like to eliminate. Piping explicitly through the table formatter and using the -HideTableHeaders switch will eliminate the two lines of column headings:
15:26:32|# get-childitem . | Format-Table -HideTableHeaders
Directory: D:Documents and Settings200018252
d—- 7/15/2011 8:15 AM .ssh
d—- 3/9/2011 12:42 PM Connect
d—- 7/29/2011 8:04 AM Desktop
d—- 3/4/2011 12:19 PM Favorites
d-r– 7/30/2011 3:07 PM My Documents
d—- 7/26/2011 8:10 AM pentadactyl
d-r– 7/30/2011 11:39 AM Start Menu
d—- 6/14/2011 11:31 AM Sun
d—- 3/15/2011 10:59 AM Tracing
d—- 3/10/2011 1:14 PM vimperator
-a— 7/17/2011 10:23 AM 0 .tora.tse
-a— 3/23/2011 2:57 PM 72080 g2mdlhlpx.exe
-a— 7/25/2011 1:41 PM 247 librariesDesktop.properties
-a— 7/25/2011 1:33 PM 153 librariesDesktopSession.properties
-a— 5/11/2011 11:07 AM 12114 networkDriveMapping.vbs
-a— 7/2/2011 6:12 PM 10 tryme.cmd
-a— 7/6/2011 12:06 PM 39 z.cmd
-a— 7/6/2011 12:06 PM 39 z.cmd~
-a— 7/30/2011 12:27 PM 13997 _viminfo
But there are still three lines before the first child item is listed (one blank, one with the directory path and then another blank).
I've looked at the xml for the table formatter and it is clearly not emitting these lines.
Can someone tell me a) what is emitting these lines and b) how to get rid of them?