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Matt Hintzke
Matt Hintzke

Reputation: 7994

Where in the world is complete documentation for PowerShell scripting?

I started doing some powershell scripting today for my work and I can find this page: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849827.aspx

This shows all the Cmdlets that I am using in the scripts, but I cannot find the documentation on how to use the returned objects of these Cmdlets. For example, I am using the Get-ChildItem cmd to get all the files in a dir recursively. Then I am using a ForEach loop like this:

 $dest = "C:\Users\a-mahint\Documents\Testing\Dest"
                    $destlist = Get-ChildItem $dest -Recurse

                    foreach ($file in $destlist){
                    write-host "File: $file"
                    write-host $file
                    $result = test-path -path "C:\Users\a-mahint\Documents\Testing\Src\*" -include $file.Name
                        if (-not $result){
                          Copy-Item $file -Destination "$backup"
                        }

                    }
                    write-host "Done copying deleted files"

Except I have no idea what type of object a $file is...In the documentation above, it just says it outputs a System.Object, but that doesn't help at all. I want to know all the properties of this object so I can use them to debug.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 171

Answers (3)

E.V.I.L.
E.V.I.L.

Reputation: 2166

From a question I asked one time Andy Arismendi supplied some links for me to read.

You can download said specification: 2.0 and 3.0.

$file = Get-Item C:\foo.txt

Remember there is a $file | Get-Member command you can use to view the objects methods and properties. Also since everything in PowerShell is an Object you can always do $file.GetType() and then Bing that type.

Upvotes: 2

KillasRspike
KillasRspike

Reputation: 1

Here is a decent reference for get-childitem.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee176841.aspx

What kind of file details are you needing exactly?

Upvotes: 0

PowerShell
PowerShell

Reputation: 2061

Get-ChildItem "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\en-US" -Filter *.txt

Upvotes: 1

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