How to do it...

Let's perform the following steps:

1. Open PowerShell.
2. Execute Get-UICulture, followed by Get-Process. Notice that the default formatting for these two cmdlets seems to be tabular, shown as follows:

1. Execute Get-TimeZone, followed by Get-Uptime. This time, the default output formatting seems to be a list, shown as follows:

1. Now, execute Get-ChildItem -Path *DoesNotExist*. With this cmdlet, you might get no output back at all.
2. Lastly, execute New-Item -Name file -Value 'Test file'. While this cmdlet doesn't use the verb Get, it still returns output to work with.