Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting - Third Edition

Finding commands

The verb-noun pairing can make it a lot easier to find commands (without resorting to search engines).

For example, if we want to list firewall rules and we already know of the NetSecurity module that's available in Windows PowerShell, we can run the following command, which shows the Get commands in that module:

PS> Get-Command Get-*Firewall* -Module NetSecurityCommandType Name                               Version Source ----------- ----                               ------- ------ Function    Get-NetFirewallAddressFilter       2.0.0.0 NetSecurityFunction    Get-NetFirewallApplicationFilter   2.0.0.0 NetSecurityFunction    Get-NetFirewallInterfaceFilter     2.0.0.0 NetSecurityFunction    Get-NetFirewallInterfaceTypeFilter 2.0.0.0 NetSecurityFunction    Get-NetFirewallPortFilter          2.0.0.0 NetSecurityFunction ...