This CG will put you in charge of controlling changes to network routers and other SNMP devices.

Windows PowerShell Nouns

Introduction to Windows PowerShell Nouns

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

Note: There is a sister parameter -verb

Refine your list like so:

# 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)

File (Out-file)

Item (Get-Item d:\scripts)

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 DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry. Also where-object)

Process

Property (Get-Property c:\boot.ini)

Provider

Service

WmiObject

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Summary of Windows PowerShell Nouns

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.

See more PowerShell examples for syntax advice

• PowerShell Tutorials • Syntax • Get-Verb • PowerShell Nouns • Get-Member • Get-Credential

• PowerShell -as • Comparison operators • Conditional operators • Get-Date • Quotes

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