This isn’t so much a post as an extended pingback.  This Post by Jeffrey Snover on the PowerShell Team Blog explains how to use the -expandproperty parameter of the select-object cmdlet.

I had never noticed that parameter and was also annoyed by writing this all the time:

get-something | foreach {$_.SomeProperty}

It was an idiom that I was using a lot that felt like it didn’t fit.</p> <p>As he points out, this can be replaced with the non-looping:

get-something | select-object -expandProperty SomeProperty

It’s longer if you don’t use aliases (and prefix-shortened parameternames), but I think it reads a lot better.

Let me know what you think. Was this a surprise to you, or have you used the -expandProperty parameter before?

Mike

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