powershell - Powershell select-object cmdlet only grabbing first property

Question

When I use the select-object cmdlet, it only grabs the first property from the list of properties given to it. For instance

Get-ChildItem C:\tmp | Select-Object Name, CreationTime, Length

Returns to me only the Name and not the CreationTime or Length. If I put CreationTime first, I get only the CreationTime returned and not the other properties. It looks like the select statement is only processing the first argument and ignoring the rest. I have even tried using the -property parameter but that didn't help either

This looks like a very basic question, but where am I going wrong on this one?

I have confirmed I have PS 3.0. Here's a verbatim copy/paste of my command lines, as you can see only the Name is returned and not the length

PS C:\tmp> $psversiontable

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      3.0
WSManStackVersion              3.0
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
CLRVersion                     4.0.30319.18046
BuildVersion                   6.2.9200.16434
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.2


PS C:\tmp> Get-ChildItem | select Name,Length

Name
----
dls
gallery_uploads.txt
k.ps1
myscript.ps1
uploads.txt

Any ideas why this might be happening? I have tried this on 2 separate machines, a Windows 8 and a Windows Server 2008 R2, same result on both!

Answer 1

In the interest of having an official answer to this post, the comment from Shay Levy was spot on, my screen buffer size was quite big, which meant the other columns were being displayed by I had to scroll the screen to the right to see it.

Thanks Shay