PowerShell: Get Object Type

By Xah Lee. Date: .

To get a object type programatically, use .getType() method. 

"abc".getType().ToString()
# "System.String"
PowerShell getType 2022-04-28
getType()

if you have potentially multiple objects, pipe it to foreach. 

dir | ForEach-Object {$_.getType().ToString()}
# System.IO.DirectoryInfo or System.IO.FileInfo

Get-Date | ForEach-Object {$_.getType().ToString()}
# System.DateTime

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