{"id":366,"date":"2014-11-11T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/11\/11\/powertip-examine-powershell-cmdlet-coverage\/"},"modified":"2014-11-11T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-examine-powershell-cmdlet-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-examine-powershell-cmdlet-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Examine PowerShell Cmdlet Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Learn how to examine where Windows PowerShell cmdlets come from.<\/span><\/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 use Windows PowerShell to find which modules supply the most cmdlets of a particular type?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><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;<b>Get-Command<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet and specify a particular verb (such as&nbsp;<b>Get<\/b>), pipe the resulting objects<br \/><span style=\"font-size:12px\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;to the&nbsp;<\/span><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Group-Object<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">&nbsp;cmdlet&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size:12px\">to group by the&nbsp;<\/span><b style=\"font-size:12px\">ModuleName<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">&nbsp;property, then sort the results in a<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12px\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;descending fashion, for example:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">get-command -verb get | group ModuleName | sort count -Descending<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to examine where Windows PowerShell cmdlets come from. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find which modules supply the most cmdlets of a particular type? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Command&nbsp;cmdlet and specify a particular verb (such as&nbsp;Get), pipe the resulting objects&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;to the&nbsp;Group-Object&nbsp;cmdlet&nbsp;to group by the&nbsp;ModuleName&nbsp;property, then sort the results [&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-366","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 examine where Windows PowerShell cmdlets come from. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find which modules supply the most cmdlets of a particular type? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Command&nbsp;cmdlet and specify a particular verb (such as&nbsp;Get), pipe the resulting objects&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;to the&nbsp;Group-Object&nbsp;cmdlet&nbsp;to group by the&nbsp;ModuleName&nbsp;property, then sort the results [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","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=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/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=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}