Members

Members, as described at the beginning of this chapter, are used to interact with an object.

Members of objects in PowerShell have several possible origins:

• Members are defined by a .NET type.
• Members can be added by PowerShell (essentially by the PowerShell team).
• Members can be added by a user or developer in PowerShell.

The Get-Member command is one of the most important discovery tools available in PowerShell.

The Get-Member command

The Get-Member command can be used to view the different members of an object. For example, it can be used to list the members of a Process object returned by Get-Process. The $PID automatic variable holds the process ID of the current PowerShell process:

PS> Get-Process -Id $PID | Get-Member
    TypeName: System.Diagnostics.Process
Name               MemberType     Definition
----               ----------     ----------
Handles            AliasProperty  Handles = Handlecount
Name         ...