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Asked: 2026-05-15T19:48:09+00:00

Is it possible to sort the output of the Format-List cmdlet by property name?

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Is it possible to sort the output of the Format-List cmdlet by property name?
Suppose that I have an object $x with two properties “A” and “B”, and when I run Format-List with it I get

(PS) > $x | Format-List
B : value b
A : value a

I would like to have

(PS) > $x | Format-List 
A : value a
B : value b

NOTE: I should have specified from the beginning that, unlike in the example with “A” and “B” properties, the real object I have to deal with has quite a lot of properties, and new ones could be added in the future, so I don’t know all the property names in advance.

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  1. Editorial Team

    AFAIK, Format-List does not provide such an option.

    For your particular example this should work:

    $x | Select-Object A, B | Format-List

    If the property set is not fixed/known then the procedure will be more tricky with use of Get-Member and some preprocessing making sorted parameter array for Select-Object.

    EDIT:

    Here it is (let’s use $host instead of $x):

    $host | Select-Object ([string[]]($host | Get-Member -MemberType Property | %{ $_.Name } | Sort-Object)) | Format-List

    Christopher is right, Select-Object is not absolutely needed:

    $host | Format-List ([string[]]($host | Get-Member -MemberType Property | %{ $_.Name } | Sort-Object))
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