There are some PowerShell cmdlets that everyone should know. Knowing these cmdlets will help you discover other cmdlets, their functions, parameters, and returned objects.
The first cmdlet that you should know is Get-Command
. This cmdlet returns all the commands that are installed on your computer. The Get-Command
cmdlet has the following syntax. The first parameter set is named CmdletSet
:
Get-Command [[-Name] <String[]>] [[-ArgumentList] <Object[]>] [-All] [-CommandType {Alias | Function | Filter | Cmdlet | ExternalScript | Application | Script | Workflow | Configuration | All}] [-FullyQualifiedModule <ModuleSpecification[]>] [-ListImported] [-Module <String[]>] [-ParameterName <String[]>] [-ParameterType <PSTypeName[]>] [-ShowCommandInfo] [-Syntax] [-TotalCount <Int32>] [<CommonParameters>]
The second parameter set is named AllCommandSet
:
Get-Command [[-ArgumentList]...