PowerShell Array output format

Asked Apr 17 '18 at 20:58

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In Power Shell I try to get all members of an AD group with the following command:

$users=Get-ADGroupMember -Identity 'AD-Group-XYZ' -Recursive | Select SamAccountName

Then if I try to print the first username by typing:

$users[0]

I get the following output:

SamAccountName
--------------
usenameX

The question is how can I get only the output:

usenameX

and skip:

SamAccountName
--------------

I tried the following but nothing works:

$users[0].ToString()
$users[0].text
$users[0].text.ToString()

The reason is that I want to iterate in all usernames and create a string where I concatenate them and split them with a space.

asked Apr 17 '18 at 20:58

aragorn

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Use `Select-Object -ExpandProperty` instead of just `Select-Object`. – Bill_Stewart Apr 17 '18 at 21:01
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You can also do `$users[0].sAMAccountName`. – langstrom Apr 17 '18 at 21:57
depending on the version of PS you have, $users.samAccountName should return the entire list. – brendan62269 Apr 17 '18 at 22:07
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A similar effect can be achieved using `ForEach-Object { $_.SamAccountName }`. – lit Apr 17 '18 at 22:12
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Or shorthand for lit's suggestion is `$users | % SamAccountName` (which accomplishes the same thing as Bill's suggestion, it's just faster to type and harder to understand). – TheMadTechnician Apr 17 '18 at 22:21
All valid suggestions here; if you're interested in their relative performance, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/48888108/45375 – mklement0 Apr 18 '18 at 01:53
Thanks to all! All inputs were valid. – aragorn Apr 18 '18 at 13:15

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