Powershell script output line wrap

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This is a minor annoyance, but I notice that output from my PreDeploy.ps1 or Deploy.ps1 is being wrapped at 80 characters, whereas other logging lines are left alone.

I suspect the problem is that powershell is deciding (because it’s smarter than you) that you want word wrapping, maybe because the default console-host attached to the shell has 80 columns.

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Just a quick follow up: Write-Host seems to prevent unwanted line wrapping in powershell, where as Write-Output seems to be responsible for this stupid unwanted line wrapping behavior.

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And one more follow up: it seems the word wrapping is influenced by $host.UI.RawUI.BufferSize which can be overridden by the script.

One work-around could be to put something in the profile script to make sure it gets set during each powershell invocation.

See also: http://weblogs.asp.net/soever/archive/2008/12/09/powershell-output-capturing-and-text-wrapping-strange-quirks-solved.aspx

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Thanks Chris, the buffer size will be set to 500 in the next release!

Paul

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has this change been deployed yet? in what version? if not, what version can we expect it?

thanks.

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Hi Mike,

This change has been implemented quite a while ago :slight_smile:

Thanks

Dalmiro