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Getting Started with Powershell

You're reading from   Getting Started with Powershell Learn the fundamentals of PowerShell to build reusable scripts and functions to automate administrative tasks with Windows

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783558506
Length 180 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. First Steps 2. Building Blocks FREE CHAPTER 3. Objects and PowerShell 4. Life on the Assembly Line 5. Formatting Output 6. Scripts 7. Functions 8. Modules 9. File I/O 10. WMI and CIM 11. Web Server Administration A. Next Steps
Index

The Get-Member cmdlet

One way to find the members of a class is to look up this class online in the MicroSoft Developers Network (MSDN). For instance, the FileInfo class is found at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.fileinfo.

Although this is a good reference, it's not very handy to switch back and forth between PowerShell and a browser to look at the classes all the time. Fortunately, PowerShell has a very handy way to give this information, the Get-Member cmdlet. This is the third of the "big 3" cmdlets, following Get-Command and Get-Help.

The most common way to use the Get-Member cmdlet is to pipe data into it. Piping is a way to pass data from one cmdlet to another, and is covered in depth in the next chapter. Using a pipe with Get-Member looks like this:

The Get-Member cmdlet

The Get-Member cmdlet looks at all the objects in its input, and provides output for each distinct class. In this output, we can see that Get-Service only outputs a single type, System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController...

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