Output data with no column headings using PowerShell

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I want to be able to output data from PowerShell without any column headings  I know I can hide the column heading using Format-Table -HideTableHeaders  but that leaves a blank line at the top   Here is my example   get-qadgroupmember  Domain Admins    Select Name   ft -hide   out-file Admins txt   How do I eliminate the column heading and the blank line   I could add another line and do this   Get-Content Admins txt   Where     -ne       out-file Admins1 txt   But can I do this on one line

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add the parameter -expandproperty after the select-object  it will return only data without header

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Joey mentioned that Format-  is for human consumption  If you re writing to a file for machine consumption  maybe you want to use Export-   Some good ones are   Export-Csv - Comma separated value  Great for when you know what the columns are going to be Export-Clixml - You can export whole objects and collections  This is great for serialization    If you want to read back in  you can use Import-Csv and Import-Clixml  I find that I like this better than inventing my own data formats  also it s pretty easy to whip up an Import-Ini if that s your preference

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First we grab the command output  then wrap it and select one of its properties  There is only one and its  Name  which is what we want   So we select the groups property with   name  then output it    to text file     Get-ADGroupMember  Domain Admins   Select name  name   out-file Admins1 txt   to csv   Get-ADGroupMember  Domain Admins   Select name  name   export-csv -notypeinformation  Admins1 csv

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A better answer is to leave your script as it was  When doing the Select name  follow it by -ExpandProperty Name like so   Get-ADGroupMember  Domain Admins    Select Name -ExpandProperty Name   out-file Admins txt

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In your case  when you just select a single property  the easiest way is probably to bypass any formatting altogether   get-qadgroupmember  Domain Admins    foreach      Name     This will get you a simple string   without column headings or empty lines  The Format-  cmdlets are mainly for human consumption and thus their output is not designed to be easily machine-readable or -parseable   For multiple properties I d probably go with the -f format operator  Something along the lines of  alias        0 -10  1 -10  2 -60   -f    COmmandType    Name    Definition     which isn t pretty but gives you easy and complete control over the output formatting  And no empty lines  -

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The -expandproperty does not work with more than 1 object  You can use this one    Select-Object Name   ForEach-Object     Name    If there is more than one value then    Select-Object Name  Country   ForEach-Object     Name          Country

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If you use  format-table  you can use -hidetableheaders

[powershell] Output data with no column headings using PowerShell

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