More specifically, you can find out all of the type information about anything you get access to by piping it to 'get-member'
get-netadapter | get-member
Which gives the following output http://pastebin.com/bM0cBeXb about the type information for the result of 'get-netadapter'. In addition to this, tab completion for properties is available.
Alternately, you can get all of the current properties of any existing object by piping to 'select' (to get a general subset) or 'select * ' to get all properties. Note that this gives all information for the objects in the pipeline.
get-netadapter | select
get-netadapter | select *
The first will provide a short list of fields for all network adapters, and the second will provide all properties.
'Select' can also be used to easily filter the properties of items in the pipeline to ones you care about.
get-netadapter | select Name, MacAddress
You can also just generally filter the pipeline based on generic filters (give me all of the network adapters that are currently not enabled, and have a driver provided by Mellanox).
And ultimately, if you want to use powershell to do the stuff that typed objects are good at, and then leverage command line tools to do the rest, you can if you like.
Which will take all of the network adapters, gather their name and mac address, and spit it out to stdout as CSV which can then be sent to any number of external tools, or using the '-expandproperty' flag to 'select' can give just a bare list of properties one on each line.
Alternately, you can get all of the current properties of any existing object by piping to 'select' (to get a general subset) or 'select * ' to get all properties. Note that this gives all information for the objects in the pipeline.
The first will provide a short list of fields for all network adapters, and the second will provide all properties.'Select' can also be used to easily filter the properties of items in the pipeline to ones you care about.
You can also just generally filter the pipeline based on generic filters (give me all of the network adapters that are currently not enabled, and have a driver provided by Mellanox).And ultimately, if you want to use powershell to do the stuff that typed objects are good at, and then leverage command line tools to do the rest, you can if you like.
Which will take all of the network adapters, gather their name and mac address, and spit it out to stdout as CSV which can then be sent to any number of external tools, or using the '-expandproperty' flag to 'select' can give just a bare list of properties one on each line.