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about_SeeShell COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2015 Jim Christopher For license information please type: get-help about_seeshell_license SHORT DESCRIPTION SeeShell is a simple data visualization module for PowerShell that currently supports Charts. LONG DESCRIPTION SeeShell brings data visualization capabilities to your PowerShell and ISE sessions. SeeShell visualizations can monitor data sources asynchronously, allowing you to perform other tasks in your PowerShell session. SeeShell supports the following features: Graphing and Charting SeeShell supports over two dozen types of charts. These include linear and radial plots capable of displaying relationships between quantitative and qualitiative data. In addition, a single chart can display multiple independent sources of data, sharing axes where appropriate. For more information type: get-help about_SeeShell_Charts get-help out-chart Data Sources Use SeeShell data sources to define and describe your data. Describe the properties of each data item, including scale information, key data ranges to reflect in the visualizations, and visualization colors. For more information type: get-help about_SeeShell_DataSources USING SEESHELL Prerequisites SeeShell requires the following to operate: * PowerShell 3.0 or higher * .NET Framework 4.5 Loading SeeShell SeeShell is distributed as a module. Before you can use SeeShell cmdlets, you need to import the SeeShell module into your session using the import-module cmdlet: import-module seeshell GETTING STARTED Once the module is loaded, the list of cmdlets available in SeeShell can be found using: get-command -module seeshell For help on a specific SeeShell cmdlet, use the standard get-help PowerShell cmdlet: get-help out-chart QUICK EXAMPLE 1) Open a PowerShell console. 2) Import the SeeShell module by following the instructions in USING SEESHELL. 3) In the PowerShell console, type the following: dir | out-chart -name Files -type Column -plot Length -by Name This will plot the size of each file (in bytes) by the file name for all files in the current directory. SEE ALSO https://github.com/beefarino/seeshell about_SeeShell_License about_SeeShell_Version about_SeeShell_Drives about_SeeShell_DataSources about_SeeShell_Charts |