{"id":3179,"date":"2013-07-22T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/07\/22\/powertip-discover-which-powershell-cmdlets-have-parameter-to-accept-specific-type\/"},"modified":"2013-07-22T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-discover-which-powershell-cmdlets-have-parameter-to-accept-specific-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-discover-which-powershell-cmdlets-have-parameter-to-accept-specific-type\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Discover which PowerShell Cmdlets Have Parameter to Accept Specific Type"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/strong>: Learn how to find Windows PowerShell cmdlets that have a specific parameter that accepts specific types.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I find all Windows PowerShell cmdlets that have a parameter named ComputerName<\/strong> <\/em>that accepts an array of strings?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Import all the modules, then use the Get-Command<\/strong> cmdlet to look for a ParameterName<\/strong> <\/em>of ComputerName<\/strong> and a ParameterType<\/strong> <\/em>of [string[]]<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Get-Module –list | import-Module<\/p>\n

Get-Command –ParameterType [string[]] –ParameterName ComputerName<\/p>\n

The following script counts how many cmdlets have a parameter named ComputerName<\/strong> that accepts a string, and how many accept an array of strings:<\/p>\n

PS C:> gcm -ParameterType [string] -ParameterName computername | measure<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Count    : 549<\/p>\n

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Maximum  :<\/p>\n

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 <\/p>\n

PS C:> gcm -ParameterType [string[]] -ParameterName computername | measure<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Count    : 204<\/p>\n

Average  :<\/p>\n

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Maximum  :<\/p>\n

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Property :<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Learn how to find Windows PowerShell cmdlets that have a specific parameter that accepts specific types.  How can I find all Windows PowerShell cmdlets that have a parameter named ComputerName that accepts an array of strings?  Import all the modules, then use the Get-Command cmdlet to look for a ParameterName of ComputerName and a ParameterType of [string[]]: Get-Module –list | import-Module Get-Command –ParameterType [string[]] –ParameterName […]<\/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-3179","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: Learn how to find Windows PowerShell cmdlets that have a specific parameter that accepts specific types.  How can I find all Windows PowerShell cmdlets that have a parameter named ComputerName that accepts an array of strings?  Import all the modules, then use the Get-Command cmdlet to look for a ParameterName of ComputerName and a ParameterType of [string[]]: Get-Module –list | import-Module Get-Command –ParameterType [string[]] –ParameterName […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179","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=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/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=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}