{"id":3591,"date":"2013-05-22T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/05\/22\/powertip-find-format-data-used-by-current-powershell-session\/"},"modified":"2013-05-22T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-format-data-used-by-current-powershell-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-format-data-used-by-current-powershell-session\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find Format Data Used by Current PowerShell Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">Summary<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">: Find the Windows PowerShell format data files that are used in your current Windows PowerShell session.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I find the format data files that are being used in my current Windows PowerShell&nbsp;session?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<strong>Get-FormatData<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet in Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0, and to browse this information, pipe the results to the&nbsp;<strong>More<\/strong>&nbsp;command:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">Get-FormatData | more<span style=\"font-size: 12px\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Find the Windows PowerShell format data files that are used in your current Windows PowerShell session. &nbsp;How can I find the format data files that are being used in my current Windows PowerShell&nbsp;session? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-FormatData&nbsp;cmdlet in Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0, and to browse this information, pipe the results to the&nbsp;More&nbsp;command: Get-FormatData | more&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-3591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Find the Windows PowerShell format data files that are used in your current Windows PowerShell session. &nbsp;How can I find the format data files that are being used in my current Windows PowerShell&nbsp;session? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-FormatData&nbsp;cmdlet in Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0, and to browse this information, pipe the results to the&nbsp;More&nbsp;command: Get-FormatData | more&nbsp;<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}