{"id":4214,"date":"2013-02-03T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/02\/03\/powertip-find-all-of-the-common-approved-powershell-verbs\/"},"modified":"2013-02-03T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-all-of-the-common-approved-powershell-verbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-all-of-the-common-approved-powershell-verbs\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find All of the Common Approved PowerShell Verbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">Summary:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">&nbsp;Learn how to find all of the approved Windows PowerShell verbs that are in the Common group.<\/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 produce a list of all approved common Windows PowerShell verbs. How do I do it?<\/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;This answer comes from my new&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Windows-PowerShell-3-0-Step\/dp\/0735663394\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1344869046&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=powershell%203.0\" target=\"_blank\">Windows PowerShell 3.0 Step by Step<\/a>&nbsp;Microsoft Press book.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">Use&nbsp;<strong>Get-Verb<\/strong>&nbsp;and pipe the results to the&nbsp;<strong>Where-Object<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet. Match the&nbsp;<strong>group<\/strong>&nbsp;property with the word &ldquo;common&rdquo; and send the results to&nbsp;<strong>Format-Wide<\/strong>. The command is shown here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">Get-Verb | where group -match &#8216;common&#8217; | Format-Wide verb -auto<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">The command and associated output from the command are shown here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">11:09 C:\\&gt; Get-Verb | where group -match &#8216;common&#8217; | Format-Wide verb -auto<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">Add&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Clear&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Close&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Copy&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Enter&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Exit&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Find&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Format&nbsp;&nbsp; Get<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">Hide&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Join&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lock&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Move&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; New&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Open&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Optimize Pop&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Push<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">Redo&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Remove&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rename&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Reset&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Resize&nbsp;&nbsp; Search&nbsp;&nbsp; Select&nbsp;&nbsp; Set&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Show<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">Skip&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Split&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Step&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Switch&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Undo&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Unlock&nbsp;&nbsp; Watch<\/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 find all of the approved Windows PowerShell verbs that are in the Common group. &nbsp;I want to produce a list of all approved common Windows PowerShell verbs. How do I do it? &nbsp;This answer comes from my new&nbsp;Windows PowerShell 3.0 Step by Step&nbsp;Microsoft Press book. Use&nbsp;Get-Verb&nbsp;and pipe the results to the&nbsp;Where-Object&nbsp;cmdlet. Match [&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-4214","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 find all of the approved Windows PowerShell verbs that are in the Common group. &nbsp;I want to produce a list of all approved common Windows PowerShell verbs. How do I do it? &nbsp;This answer comes from my new&nbsp;Windows PowerShell 3.0 Step by Step&nbsp;Microsoft Press book. Use&nbsp;Get-Verb&nbsp;and pipe the results to the&nbsp;Where-Object&nbsp;cmdlet. 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