In PowerShell, nouns always come after the verb. For instance: Verb-Noun, Get-Process,
New-Alias or Set-Location. One advantage of researching a noun is
that it can lead to other interesting cmdlets in the same family.
Noun
Experiments
Experiment with these commands, just substitute the noun that you are interested in:
Get-Service) Get-Service | Get-Member Get-Help
Service #
NOT Get-Help | Get-Service)
Special note: the pipeline symbol displays as ¦
at the PowerShell command-line, but as | in notepad.
# To get a list of nouns for PowerShell v 2.0 try this:
Clear-Host Get-Command -Noun
# To get a list of nouns for PowerShell v 2.0 try this:
Clear-Host Get-Command -Noun Proc*
PowerShell Noun List
Acl (Get-Acl)
Alias
Childitem (Get-Childitem has an Alias of dir)
Command (Get-Command)
Content (Get-Content machines.csv)
Drives
Env
Eventlog (not eventvwr)
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Object (Rare in that Get-object does not work, object used with where, new, group and sort, for example, new-object comobject and New-Object
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Firstly, remember the sequence: verb-Noun. Secondly make a point of collecting PowerShell nouns.
Each construction begins with a verb then a hyphen, finally the Verb or object
for example, Get-Childitem. However, because 'get' is the default
PowerShell verb, it is sometimes omitted thus you see 'Service' rather than
Get-Service.
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