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Using the Get-Member Cmdlet

The Get-Member cmdlet retrieves information about the members of objects. Although this may not seem very exciting, remember that because everything returned from a cmdlet is an object, we can use the Get-Member cmdlet to examine the methods and properties of objects. When the Get-Member cmdlet is used with Get-ChildItem on the filesystem, it returns a listing of all the methods and properties available to work with the filesystem object.

Objects, Properties, and Methods

One of the more interesting features of Windows PowerShell is that cmdlets return objects. An object is a thing that gives us the ability to either describe something or do something. If we are not going to describe or do something, then there is no reason ...