Using PowerShell Commands

Instead of giving you a laundry list of all the commands, my goal instead is to use the limited space in this tutorial to give you some examples of commands you may find useful. I also hope to give you some information that will easily translate to other commands to allow you to expand your knowledge.

Note Microsoft hosts a site titled. where you can find a wealth of information, tutorials, and examples of different types of scripts, including PowerShell scripts There are actually two scripting guys (Ed Wilson and Craig Liebendorfer) You can find their column and archives here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/all.mspx

If you want to create your own list of all the commands and document them in text fi les you can review periodically, try these commands:

Get-Command -CommandType cmdlet | Out-File cmdlets.txt
Get-Command -CommandType alias | Out-File alias.txt
Get-Command -CommandType function | Out-File function.txt
Get-Command | Out-File Commands.txt

As a reminder, you don't need to type in everything when entering PowerShell commands. PowerShell will give you some help. As an example, the fi rst command in the previous list could be typed in like this:

• First, type in only Get-Co and then press the Tab key twice to see the command:
  Get-Command
• Press the spacebar, enter the dash (-) symbol, type in C, and press the Tab key to see it become
  Get-Command -CommandType
• Press the spacebar, type in cmdlet, the pipe symbol (|), Out-F, and press the Tab key once to get
  Get-Command -CommandType cmdlet | Out-File
• Last, type in the name of the file as cmdlets.txt.