Formatting Cmdlets

Several formatting cmdlets are very useful:

Image Format-Table (alias ft)—Cmdlet that prints out properties in a table-based format

Image Format-List (alias fl)—Cmdlet that prints out properties in a list-style format

Some simple examples of Format-Table can be easily demonstrated, as you can see here:

PS C:\book\test> Get-Process powershellHandles  NPM(K)    PM(K)      WS(K) VM(M)   CPU(s)Id ProcessName-------  ------    -----      ----- -----   -------- ----------    548      13    54316      13192   164    25.55 ...

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