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Discovering cmdlets and aliases - PowerShell Tutorial
From the course: Learning PowerShell
Discovering cmdlets and aliases
- [Voiceover] So, now as you start looking at PowerShell, you're probably starting to, "hey, it's a pretty easy language to read, I can do all kinds of great things inside of it, but there has to be more than just get-service." And, you're right, there actually is quite a bit more. Well, how do ya find those commands inside of PowerShell? Well, yep, there's another command that you'll have to learn: get-command. So, if I just bring that up and hit enter, it's gonna show me all the cmdlets that are available to me on the system. Now, a couple notes, first off: this isn't all the cmdlets that are available to you. You might have ones that are a part of a service that you'll install onto a system that you don't have right now. You might have ones that download, and they might install as part of a service, so, depending on where you're at and what system you're on PowerShell may be different, but they'll have all the base core commandments that are here. As you scroll up this list…
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