Get-member returns different TypeName of the same variable

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Hello,

I have a question about the Object Type returned by the Get-Member command.
I have the following code:

$svc = get-service     # stores a collection of service objects(System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController) in the svc variable
$svc | Get-Member      #returns TypeName: System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController
Get-Member -InputObject $svc  # returns TypeName: System.Object[]

Why does Get-member returns two different type of object for the content of the same variable?

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Because of the different amount of objects you feed it. Try only one instead of all of them …

Get-Member -InputObject $svc[0]

:wink:

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The first you are piping the objects into get member. The second is doing a get-member on the container of the objects

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