Format-List: sort properties by name

Question

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

Answer 1

I feel sure that you can achieve the desired output. I suggest that you experiment with both Sort-Object (or plain Sort) and also Group-Object (plain Group)

My idea is to place the sort, or group before | format-list

Thus $x | sort-object -property xyz | Format-List

Answer 2

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))