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David Morrow
David Morrow

Reputation: 294

Mix expanded properties from Select-Object in PowerShell

Get-Module -Name Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility

ModuleType Version Name ExportedCommands

Manifest 3.1.0.0 Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility {Add-Member, Add-Type, Clear-Variable, Compare-Object...}

I want to expand ExportedCommands and print Name by each one.

          Name                             ExportedCmdlets
  Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility            Add-Member
  Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility            Add-Type
  Microsoft.Powershell.Utility            Clear-Variable
  Microsoft.Powershell.Utility            Compare-Object

Upvotes: 2

Views: 318

Answers (1)

Doug Maurer
Doug Maurer

Reputation: 8878

You can use a nested foreach loop to iterate over the exported cmdlets. If you look at the type of object that property is, you'll see it's a dictionary.

Get-Module -Name Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility | ForEach-Object {
    $_.ExportedCmdlets | Get-Member
}

TypeName: System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2[[System.String, mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089],[System.Management.Automation.CmdletInfo, System.Management.Automation, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35]]

Since the keys and the names are the same in this case, you can use either.

Get-Module -Name Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility | ForEach-Object {
    foreach($cmdlet in $_.ExportedCmdlets.keys){
        [PSCustomObject]@{
            Name   = $_.Name
            Cmdlet = $cmdlet
        }
    }
}

Output (truncated)

Name                         Cmdlet                
----                         ------                
Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility Add-Member            
Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility Add-Type              
Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility Clear-Variable        
Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility Compare-Object

Upvotes: 3

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