{"id":4128,"date":"2013-02-21T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/02\/21\/powertip-count-the-number-of-commands-exposed-by-imported-modules\/"},"modified":"2013-02-21T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-count-the-number-of-commands-exposed-by-imported-modules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-count-the-number-of-commands-exposed-by-imported-modules\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Count the Number of Commands Exposed by Imported Modules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">Summary:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">&nbsp;Learn how to count the number of commands exposed by imported Windows PowerShell modules.<\/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;I want to know how many commands are available through the modules I have imported into my current Windows PowerShell session. How can I do this?<\/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 pipe the results to the&nbsp;<strong>Foreach-Object<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet (<strong>%<\/strong>&nbsp;is an alias). Inside the script block, use the&nbsp;<strong>Get-Command<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet to return the commands from each module. Send the results to the&nbsp;<strong>Measure-Object<\/strong>&nbsp;(<strong>measure<\/strong>&nbsp;is an alias) cmdlet, as shown here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">Get-Module | % {Get-Command -Module $_.name} | measure<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">&nbsp;<\/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:&nbsp;Learn how to count the number of commands exposed by imported Windows PowerShell modules. &nbsp;I want to know how many commands are available through the modules I have imported into my current Windows PowerShell session. How can I do this? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Module&nbsp;cmdlet and pipe the results to the&nbsp;Foreach-Object&nbsp;cmdlet (%&nbsp;is an alias). Inside the script block, [&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-4128","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:&nbsp;Learn how to count the number of commands exposed by imported Windows PowerShell modules. &nbsp;I want to know how many commands are available through the modules I have imported into my current Windows PowerShell session. How can I do this? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Module&nbsp;cmdlet and pipe the results to the&nbsp;Foreach-Object&nbsp;cmdlet (%&nbsp;is an alias). Inside the script block, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128","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=4128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128\/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=4128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}