{"id":4468,"date":"2012-12-14T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/12\/14\/powertip-use-powershell-to-compare-two-objects\/"},"modified":"2012-12-14T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-compare-two-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-compare-two-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Compare Two Objects"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary:<\/strong> Use Windows PowerShell to compare two objects to view differences and similarities.<\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I compare two objects and see the values that differ and exist in both?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Charlotte Windows PowerShell User Group member Brian Wilhite says: There is a cmdlet that will make life easy for you. The cmdlet is Compare-Object<\/strong>, and it will compare two objects and detail the results. The IncludeEqual<\/strong> parameter will list the properties that exist in both objects.<\/p>\n

$OneToFive = 1..5<\/p>\n

$OneToTen = 1..10<\/p>\n

Compare-Object -DifferenceObject $OneToFive -ReferenceObject $OneToTen –IncludeEqual<\/p>\n

InputObject  SideIndicator<\/p>\n

———–     ————-<\/p>\n

          1         ==<\/p>\n

          2         ==<\/p>\n

          3         ==<\/p>\n

          4         ==<\/p>\n

          5         ==<\/p>\n

          6         <=<\/p>\n

          7         <=<\/p>\n

          8         <=<\/p>\n

          9         <=<\/p>\n

         10        <=<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to compare two objects to view differences and similarities.  How can I compare two objects and see the values that differ and exist in both?  Charlotte Windows PowerShell User Group member Brian Wilhite says: There is a cmdlet that will make life easy for you. The cmdlet is Compare-Object, and it will compare […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[327,56,356,3,45],"class_list":["post-4468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-brian-wilhite","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to compare two objects to view differences and similarities.  How can I compare two objects and see the values that differ and exist in both?  Charlotte Windows PowerShell User Group member Brian Wilhite says: There is a cmdlet that will make life easy for you. The cmdlet is Compare-Object, and it will compare […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}