Vista - How do you use .net enumeration values in powershell?

I am trying to read the file attributes given a file or folder. What I
expected to be simple is unfortunately not giving me the results I expected.


## This returns the type FileAttributes
(Get-ChildItem | % {$_.get_attributes()})[0].gettype()


## This does not produce the results that I get by executing cmd /c dir /aa;
nothing is printed on the screen
Get-ChildItem | % {if ($_.get_attributes() -band
[System.IO.FileAttributes].Archive) {echo 'yes'} }


## This results in a nul expression
$a = [System.IO.FileAttributes].Archive

$a -eq $null

So my problem appears to be because I don't understand how to access .NET
enumeration types. I would appreciate someone explaining to me how I can do
this.

thx
bob

On Sep 20, 9:06 pm, Bob Landau <BobLan...@xxxxxx>
wrote:Try this:

$a = [System.IO.FileAttributes]::Archive
or
$a = [System.IO.FileAttributes] "Archive"

Good luck.

Jeff

Bit by "static" again.

I was familar with static method/properties. In hindsight it seems obvious
that static should apply to enum types.

Thank you

bob


"Jeff" wrote:

BTW, Installing MoW's PowerTab can save you a lot of "if and how", It did
for me

Shay
http://scriptolog.blogspot.com