How to format correctly the output from Group-object

Question

I'am developing a script for one of our clients, they are using some accounting apps that need to be closed on the terminal server in order to update the apps from time to time.

I've came up with a script that will ask what the user want to do and then show him the correct out put, the thing is, that my out put looks like a hashtable when, and I don't know what to do in order to group the output correctly and organize it by the process name

here is a part of the code:

$apps = Get-Process CpaPlus,ShklMnNT,HonProj,hisMain,hazharon -IncludeUserName

$apps|Group-Object ProcessName

the output looks like that:

----- ----                      -----                                                                                                                                             
    4 CpaPlus                   {@{UserName=bla\user; ProcessName=CpaPlus}, @{UserName=bla\user; ProcessName=CpaPlus}, @{UserName=bla\user; ProcessName=CpaP...
    2 hisMain                   {@{UserName=bla\user; ProcessName=hisMain}, @{UserName=bla\user; ProcessName=hisMain}}                                             

disaired output:

count  processname   user
----   ----------    ---
4       cpaplus      michael 

thanks a lot for your help.

Answer 1

If you want to group on both ProcessName and UserName , you'll have to tell Group-Object to do both:

$ProcessByUser = $apps |Group-Object ProcessName,UserName

We can then use Select-Object to grab the relevant properties from one of the existing objects:

$ProcessByUser |Select-Object Count,@{Name='ProcessName';Expression={$_.Groups[0].ProcessName}},@{Name='UserName';Expression={$_.Groups[0].UserName}}