PscxLess
SYNOPSIS
PscxLess provides better paging of output from cmdlets.
SYNTAX
PscxLess [[-Path] <String[]>] [[-LiteralPath] <String[]>]
DESCRIPTION
PscxLess provides better paging of output from cmdlets. By default PowerShell uses more.com for paging which is a pretty minimal paging app that doesn't support advanced navigation features. This function uses Less.exe ie Less394 as the replacement for more.com. Less can navigate down as well as up and can be scrolled by page or by line and responds to the Home and End keys. Less also supports searching the text by pressing the "/" key followed by the term to search for then the "Enter" key. One of the primary keyboard shortcuts to know with less.exe is the key to exit. Pressing the "q" key will exit less.exe. For more help on less.exe press the "h" key. If you prefer to use more.com set the PSCX preference variable PageHelpUsingLess to $false e.g. $Pscx:Preferences['PageHelpUsingLess'] = $false
EXAMPLES
EXAMPLE 1
man about_profiles -full
This sends the help output of the about_profiles topic to the help function which pages the output.
Man is an alias for the "help" function. PSCX overrides the help function to page help using either
the built-in PowerShell "more" function or the PSCX "less" function depending on the value of the
PageHelpUsingLess preference variable.
EXAMPLE 2
PscxLess *.txt
Opens each text file in less.exe in succession. Pressing ':n' moves to the next file.
PARAMETERS
-Path
The path to the file to view. Wildcards are accepted.
Type: System.String[]
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases:
Required: False
Position: 1
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False
-LiteralPath
Specifies the path to a file to view. Unlike Path, the value of LiteralPath is used exactly as it is typed. No characters are interpreted as wildcards. If the path includes escape characters, enclose it in single quotation marks. Single quotation marks tell Windows PowerShell not to interpret any characters as escape sequences.
Type: System.String[]
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases:
Required: False
Position: 2
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False
INPUTS
OUTPUTS
NOTES
This function is just a passthru in all other hosts except for the PowerShell.exe console host.