{"id":422,"date":"2014-11-01T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/11\/01\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-module-to-import\/"},"modified":"2014-11-01T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-find-module-to-import","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-module-to-import\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Find Module to Import"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use Tab expansion in Windows PowerShell to find a module to import.<\/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 know I need the full name of a specific Windows PowerShell module to import it, but I am not sure of the <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;complete name, and I do not want to do a lot of typing. The module exists in a known Windows <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;PowerShell module location. How can I quickly find the module name?<\/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 Tab expansion with the&nbsp;<b>Import-Module<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet. You only need to know the first letter <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;of the module, then you can tab through the module names.<\/p>\n<p><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: Use Tab expansion in Windows PowerShell to find a module to import. &nbsp;I know I need the full name of a specific Windows PowerShell module to import it, but I am not sure of the &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;complete name, and I do not want to do a lot of typing. The [&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-422","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 Tab expansion in Windows PowerShell to find a module to import. &nbsp;I know I need the full name of a specific Windows PowerShell module to import it, but I am not sure of the &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;complete name, and I do not want to do a lot of typing. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","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=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/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=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}