{"id":3012,"date":"2013-08-18T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/08\/18\/powertip-display-all-powershell-modules-and-cmdlets\/"},"modified":"2013-08-18T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-display-all-powershell-modules-and-cmdlets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-display-all-powershell-modules-and-cmdlets\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Display All PowerShell Modules and Cmdlets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Learn how to display all Windows PowerShell modules and cmdlet names.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I get output that shows Windows PowerShell module names and the cmdlets or functions that are contained inside the modules?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<strong>Get-Module<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet, and then for each module, display the name and use&nbsp;<strong>Get-Command<\/strong>&nbsp;(<strong>gcm<\/strong>&nbsp;is an alias) to retrieve the cmdlets and functions (this is a single-line command broken at the pipe character for readability):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">Get-Module -ListAvailable |<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">foreach {&#8220;`r`nmodule name: $_&#8221;; &#8220;`r`n&#8221;;gcm -Module $_.name -CommandType cmdlet, function | select name}<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to display all Windows PowerShell modules and cmdlet names. &nbsp;How can I get output that shows Windows PowerShell module names and the cmdlets or functions that are contained inside the modules? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Module&nbsp;cmdlet, and then for each module, display the name and use&nbsp;Get-Command&nbsp;(gcm&nbsp;is an alias) to retrieve the cmdlets and functions (this [&hellip;]<\/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-3012","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":"<p>Summary: Learn how to display all Windows PowerShell modules and cmdlet names. &nbsp;How can I get output that shows Windows PowerShell module names and the cmdlets or functions that are contained inside the modules? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Module&nbsp;cmdlet, and then for each module, display the name and use&nbsp;Get-Command&nbsp;(gcm&nbsp;is an alias) to retrieve the cmdlets and functions (this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012","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=3012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/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=3012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}