{"id":3184,"date":"2013-07-21T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/07\/21\/powertip-discover-powershell-cmdlets-that-accept-array-of-strings\/"},"modified":"2013-07-21T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-discover-powershell-cmdlets-that-accept-array-of-strings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-discover-powershell-cmdlets-that-accept-array-of-strings\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Discover PowerShell Cmdlets that Accept Array of Strings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/strong>: Learn how to find Windows PowerShell cmdlets that accept an array of strings for parameter input.<\/span>\n\"Hey, How can I find all the Windows PowerShell cmdlets that accept an array of strings for parameter input?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Import all modules, then use the Get-Command<\/strong> cmdlet and the ParameterName<\/strong> <\/em>parameter to look for [string[]]<\/strong> (if you use aliases, the first command shortens to gmo -l | ipmo):<\/p>\n

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

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

The following script counts parameter types—first it counts arrays of strings, then it counts strings (gcm<\/strong> is an alias for Get-Command<\/strong>):<\/p>\n

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

Count    : 905<\/p>\n

Average  :<\/p>\n

Sum      :<\/p>\n

Maximum  :<\/p>\n

Minimum  :<\/p>\n

Property :<\/p>\n

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

 <\/p>\n

Count    : 2407<\/p>\n

Average  :<\/p>\n

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Summary: Learn how to find Windows PowerShell cmdlets that accept an array of strings for parameter input.  How can I find all the Windows PowerShell cmdlets that accept an array of strings for parameter input?  Import all modules, then use the Get-Command cmdlet and the ParameterName parameter to look for [string[]] (if you use aliases, the first command shortens to […]<\/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-3184","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 accept an array of strings for parameter input.  How can I find all the Windows PowerShell cmdlets that accept an array of strings for parameter input?  Import all modules, then use the Get-Command cmdlet and the ParameterName parameter to look for [string[]] (if you use aliases, the first command shortens to […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184","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=3184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184\/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=3184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}