When I’m sharing code one of the things I hate most is having a scroll bar along the bottom. I want ya’ll to be able to see all of the code at once. Or at most have to do a bit of scrolling up and down. In my last couple of posts I had some lines of code that were a bit longer and scroll bar started annoying me enough that I decided to figure out how to fix it. You know, it’s kind of funny how much I learn through being annoyed at something enough that I decide to fix it. Anyway, this would be easy enough for me to do in T-SQL. But Powershell? I had no clue.

This is what it looked like when I first wrote this particular line of code.

Get-Service | Where-Object {$_.Status -eq "Running"} | Select-Object Status, Name, DisplayName | Export-Csv -Path C:\temp\Services.csv -Delimiter '|'

So I spent some time and looked up how (it didn’t really take that long, but I did have to look it up.)

Get-Service | Where-Object {$_.Status -eq "Running"} | `
    Select-Object Status, Name, DisplayName | `
    Export-Csv -Path C:\temp\Services.csv -Delimiter '|'

That’s what it looks like now. Much better right? Nice and easy to read. And all it takes is the ` character at the end of the line that you are wrapping. To me it looks like a spec of dirt on my screen but basically it’s a single quote leaning from left to right. Turns out it’s even called a backtick.

I’ll be honest, this is one of those posts where the thought “This is way to simple, it’s not worth posting” went through my head. That said, I did have to look the information up, and I’m absolutely certain I’m not the only one. So there you go. One more place the information can be found.