Accessing members

[TheVMinator]

Have a simple syntax question:

I get a VM as follows:

get-vm vmname

then somewhere farther down the pipe I want to look at one of this object's members such as "guest".  How do I reference the object that is currently coming down the pipeline such as in the example below

get-vm vmname | [reference the current VM object].guest

Thanks

[chriswahl]

If you encase the command in parethesis, you can reference further items without piping.

For example, to see the name of the guest OS

(Get-VM vmname).guest.osfullname

With piping, I would express it as:

Get-VM vmname | select Name,@{N="OS Name";E={$_.Guest.OSFullName}}

Great reference site: http://www.lucd.info/

[TheVMinator]

Get-VM vmname | select Name,@{N="OS Name";E={$_.Guest.OSFullName}}

OK thanks.  However, it seems that there must be a simpler expression than this.   Isn't there a single or double-character operator that can be used to reference the current object, and then access that object's members, such as:

get-vm vmname | $_.guest

It seems that I have seen / used something like this but can't remember how to do it.

Thanks

[LucD]

Do you mean ?

Get-VM | %{$_.Guest}

[TheVMinator]

That's it - thanks again.  Got tripped up on the modulus operator (%) being used also in that context.  Why is it required?

[LucD · Accepted solution]

The % is used as an alias for the ForEach-Object cmdlet.

You can see all aliases with

Get-Alias

[TheVMinator]

Thanks again Luc