PowerShell ISE
In the PowerShell console, you can pipe commands to the old-fashioned “more.com”, or better yet, to Out-Host –Paging. This will display data page by page, asking for a key press to continue:
PS> Get-Process | more PS> Get-Process | Out-Host -Paging
In the PowerShell ISE, neither of these is supported. That’s because the ISE has no console, and there is no “visible line count”, just an unlimited text buffer.
To prevent large amounts of results to fly over your screen, simply create your own ISE-compatible “more”:
function Out-More { param ( $Lines = 10, [Parameter(ValueFromPipeline=$true)] $InputObject ) begin { $counter = 0 } process { $counter++ if ($counter -ge $Lines) { $counter = 0 Write-Host 'Press ENTER to continue' -ForegroundColor Yellow Read-Host } $InputObject } }
Pipe your results into Out-More, and use –Lines to specify after how many result lines there should be a temporary output stop:
PS> Get-Process | Out-More -Lines 4
Handles NPM(K) PM(K) WS(K) VM(M) CPU(s) Id ProcessName
------- ------ ----- ----- ----- ------ -- -----------
100 9 1436 1592 51 6896 adb
307 42 22332 12940 123 1424 AllShareFrameworkDMS
42 4 1396 1284 19 1404 AllShareFrameworkManagerDMS
Press ENTER to continue
81 7 1004 724 43 1388 armsvc
202 25 50376 55320 234 8,06 13720 chrome
1131 65 68672 93892 361 116,73 13964 chrome
199 24 53008 52700 225 5,56 14768 chrome
Press ENTER to continue
248 26 31348 44984 239 44,31 15404 chrome
173 20 23756 25540 179 1,27 16492 chrome
190 22 36316 39208 207 2,81 16508 chrome
184 23 41800 44212 223 1,77 17244 chrome
Press ENTER to continue
