Alias a Property Name In Powershell 3

Question

Using the example below:

Get-Service | ConvertTo-HTML -Property Name, Status > C:\\services.htm

I was wondering if it is possible to ali

Answer 1

You could do an intermediate step of creating objects with the property names you want using the new-object cmdlet.

Get-Service | foreach{ new-object PSObject -property @{newname=($_.Name); newstatus=($_.Status)}} | ConvertTo-Html > .\services.htm

Answer 2

How about using select-object?

get-service | select-object -property @{N='MyNewStatus';E={$_.Status}}, @{N='MyNewName';E={$_.Name}} | ConvertTo-HTML > C:\services.htm

Answer 3

The way to alias a property name is to add an AliasPropery to the object.

Get-Service | 
foreach {
$_ | Add-Member -MemberType AliasProperty -Name MYNEWSTATUSNAME -Value Status -PassThru
} |
Select Name,MYNEWSTATUSNAME