Recursive variable dump, appropriate for crawling VMware PowerCLI Get-View objects

vardump.ps1

function vd($v, $p) {
	if($v -eq $null) {
		echo "[$p] -> null"
	} else {
		$v | gm -MemberType Property | % {
			if ($_.Definition.ToString() -match "\[\]") {
				for($i = 0; $i -lt $v.$($_.name).length; $i++) {
					vd $v.$($_.name)[$i] "$p.$($_.name)[$i]" 
				}
			} elseif ($_.Definition -cmatch "(^System)|(^[a-z])") {
				echo "[$p.$($_.name)] -> $($v.$($_.name))"
			} else {
				vd $v.$($_.name) ($p + "." + $_.name)
			}
		}
	}
}