PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook

How to do it...

1. At the PowerShell prompt, type in the following command to list the contents of the directory:

PS> ls -l

You see the familiar output (albeit without any of the colors if your Terminal emulator uses colors for filenames).

2. Let us now look at the .NET type name of the output. For this, we need to use the Get-Member cmdlet:

PS> ls -l | Get-Member

PowerShell displays TypeName: System.String, which is consistent with what we saw in the aforementioned recipe.

3. If you have a Windows PC with PowerShell (or Windows PowerShell), run the same command on it:

PS> ls -l | Get-Member

Notice the .NET type name here; it is System.IO.DirectoryInfo and, if you scroll down the console a little, you will also see System.IO.FileInfo.

4. At the ...