Commands / Help and discovery

PS> Get-ChildItem | Get-Member

Works on

WindowsLinuxmacOS

PowerShell

5.1 and later

Reference

Microsoft Learn: Get-Member

Pipe anything into Get-Member to see property and method names. That is how you stop guessing.

Try this

Get-Date | Get-Member
'hello' | Get-Member

Related commands

• Get-Command Find a cmdlet by name
• Get-Alias List command aliases
• Select-Object Pick properties or the first N objects
• Get-Help Read help for a command
• Get-History See commands you ran earlier

Edit this page on GitHub · Report a problem