PowerShell: File Attributes Object Type

Object type of file Attribute

File attribute is of the .net type System.IO.FileAttributes

• Type of File object is System.IO.FileInfo
• Type of Dir object is System.IO.DirectoryInfo
• File or Dir object has a property named Attributes, and type of its value is System.IO.FileAttributes
• The object of type System.IO.FileAttributes, has properties named Compressed, Hidden, ReadOnly, System, etc., and their type is static

〔see Object Type, Properties, Methods〕

# list properties of a file
Get-ItemProperty  .\Documents\ | Get-Member -MemberType Properties

# one of the property is
# Attributes          Property       System.IO.FileAttributes Attributes {get;set;}