{"id":3854,"date":"2013-04-09T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/04\/09\/powertip-easily-see-the-content-of-your-function\/"},"modified":"2013-04-09T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-easily-see-the-content-of-your-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-easily-see-the-content-of-your-function\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Easily See the Content of Your Function"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">Summary<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">: Use the&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">Get-Content<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">&nbsp;cmdlet to read the content of your Windows PowerShell function.<\/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 see the content of a function that is on on my system, which I did not write?<\/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-Content<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet and point it to the&nbsp;<strong>Function:<\/strong>&nbsp;PowerShell drive. The following example gets the content of the&nbsp;<strong>more<\/strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em>function.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">Get-Content Function:\\more<\/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: Use the&nbsp;Get-Content&nbsp;cmdlet to read the content of your Windows PowerShell function. &nbsp;How can I see the content of a function that is on on my system, which I did not write? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Content&nbsp;cmdlet and point it to the&nbsp;Function:&nbsp;PowerShell drive. The following example gets the content of the&nbsp;more&nbsp;function. Get-Content Function:\\more<\/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-3854","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: Use the&nbsp;Get-Content&nbsp;cmdlet to read the content of your Windows PowerShell function. &nbsp;How can I see the content of a function that is on on my system, which I did not write? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Content&nbsp;cmdlet and point it to the&nbsp;Function:&nbsp;PowerShell drive. The following example gets the content of the&nbsp;more&nbsp;function. Get-Content Function:\\more<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3854","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=3854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3854\/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=3854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}