I’m quite new to powershell and am intrigued by the possibilities. As I’m
learning the new syntax I have been unable to determine how to print out an
arbitrary property of an object. For example, I’m exploring the get-process
command(let). I know that by doing a “get-process|get-member –type all�
this will print out all the possible methods and properties available with an
object. Now, for example, I would like to drill into the “ProcessorAffinity�
of an object. How would I go about displaying this (or any other) property
or property set?
Thanks in advance!
JJ

You can use the format-* cmdlets with the array of properties you want to
display. For example:
Get-Process | Format-Table -Property Name,ProcessorAffinity
To force column autosizing, you can add Format-Table's AutoSize parameter:
Get-Process | Format-Table -Property Name,ProcessorAffinity -AutoSize

"JJ Streicher-Bremer" <JJStreicherBremer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:AE421B52-C608-40B4-8BD9-808E023CA369@microsoft.com...
> I'm quite new to powershell and am intrigued by the possibilities. As I'm
> learning the new syntax I have been unable to determine how to print out
> an
> arbitrary property of an object. For example, I'm exploring the
> get-process
> command(let). I know that by doing a "get-process|get-member -type all"
> this will print out all the possible methods and properties available with
> an
> object. Now, for example, I would like to drill into the
> "ProcessorAffinity"
> of an object. How would I go about displaying this (or any other)
> property
> or property set?
> Thanks in advance!
> JJ
>

You can drill down to the property you want using the following syntax
ps> gps | gm -InputObject { $_.name }

But when i tried it with "$_.ProcessAffinity", it would generate an error
since there is no object associated the property.(not sure why, can anyone
explain why ProcessAffinity is null?)

Also i have found some .NET type related PowerShell team blog posts
".NET Types"
http://blogs.msdn.com/monad/archive/...08/527713.aspx

"Finding the static methods of a class"
http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/arc...f_a_class.aspx

"Improved Support for WMI"(For finding members for WMI classes)
http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/arc...26/647038.aspx

"Getting MSDN help urls for .NET BCL types and Members"
http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/arc...25/583240.aspx

Have fun surfing .NET types.

- Sung

First off, THANK YOU! It's great to see a community with such active
members, I'm excited to start digging in more with PS.



I think the issue you are running into is the property is ProcessorAffinity,
not ProcessAffinity so I would expect the latter to be null.



Thanks again!

JJ



"dance2die" <dance2die@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:167C0DB1-4A81-4713-9A5B-9B84AB9C5FA4@microsoft.com...
> You can drill down to the property you want using the following syntax
> ps> gps | gm -InputObject { $_.name }
>
> But when i tried it with "$_.ProcessAffinity", it would generate an error
> since there is no object associated the property.(not sure why, can anyone
> explain why ProcessAffinity is null?)
>
> Also i have found some .NET type related PowerShell team blog posts
> ".NET Types"
> http://blogs.msdn.com/monad/archive/...08/527713.aspx
>
> "Finding the static methods of a class"
> http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/arc...f_a_class.aspx
>
> "Improved Support for WMI"(For finding members for WMI classes)
> http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/arc...26/647038.aspx
>
> "Getting MSDN help urls for .NET BCL types and Members"
> http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/arc...25/583240.aspx
>
> Have fun surfing .NET types.
>
> - Sung

Fantastic!! Thanks for the quick reply.

JJ

"Alex K. Angelopoulos [MVP]" <aka@online.mvps.org> wrote in message
news:uDgvIKYtGHA.1512@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> You can use the format-* cmdlets with the array of properties you want to
> display. For example:
> Get-Process | Format-Table -Property Name,ProcessorAffinity
> To force column autosizing, you can add Format-Table's AutoSize parameter:
> Get-Process | Format-Table -Property Name,ProcessorAffinity -AutoSize
>
> "JJ Streicher-Bremer" <JJStreicherBremer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
> in message news:AE421B52-C608-40B4-8BD9-808E023CA369@microsoft.com...
>> I'm quite new to powershell and am intrigued by the possibilities. As
>> I'm
>> learning the new syntax I have been unable to determine how to print out
>> an
>> arbitrary property of an object. For example, I'm exploring the
>> get-process
>> command(let). I know that by doing a "get-process|get-member -type all"
>> this will print out all the possible methods and properties available
>> with an
>> object. Now, for example, I would like to drill into the
>> "ProcessorAffinity"
>> of an object. How would I go about displaying this (or any other)
>> property
>> or property set?
>> Thanks in advance!
>> JJ
>>
>
>

Not a problem there

By the way, have you tried to run gm -InputObject {$_} with piped object
from "ls"?
ls | gm -InputObject { $_ }
then you will see properties of both "System.IO.FileInfo" and "DirectoryInfo"
that is because script block "{ $_ }" argument would go over each object and
try to get
distinct object's methods and properties.

Also,
ls | gm -InputObject { $_.Parent }
where "Parent" property exists only in "DirectoryInfo" but not in "FileInfo"
You still will see members/properties for objDirectory.Parent type
information.