{"id":1316,"date":"2014-05-19T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/05\/19\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-things-to-get\/"},"modified":"2014-05-19T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-find-things-to-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-things-to-get\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Find Things to Get"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Use Windows PowerShell to find commands that “get” stuff.<\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I find Windows PowerShell commands that can find stuff about disks or other Windows components?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Use the Get-Command<\/b> cmdlet, specify the verb as Get<\/b>, and then use wildcard characters to specify the noun.
          (In the following examples, GCM<\/b> is an alias for the Get-Command<\/b> cmdlet).<\/p>\n

To find cmdlets that return information about disks:<\/p>\n

gcm -verb get -noun *disk*<\/p>\n

To find cmdlets that return information about networks:<\/p>\n

gcm -verb get -noun *network*<\/p>\n

To find cmdlets that return information about DNS:<\/p>\n

gcm -verb get -noun *dns*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find commands that “get” stuff.  How can I find Windows PowerShell commands that can find stuff about disks or other Windows components?  Use the Get-Command cmdlet, specify the verb as Get, and then use wildcard characters to specify the noun.           (In the following examples, GCM is an alias for the Get-Command cmdlet). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find commands that “get” stuff.  How can I find Windows PowerShell commands that can find stuff about disks or other Windows components?  Use the Get-Command cmdlet, specify the verb as Get, and then use wildcard characters to specify the noun.           (In the following examples, GCM is an alias for the Get-Command cmdlet). […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}