{"id":4524,"date":"2012-12-02T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/12\/02\/powertip-find-all-cmdlets-when-searching-by-a-specific-noun-or-verb\/"},"modified":"2012-12-02T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-all-cmdlets-when-searching-by-a-specific-noun-or-verb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-all-cmdlets-when-searching-by-a-specific-noun-or-verb\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find All Cmdlets When Searching by a Specific Noun or Verb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary:<\/strong> Use this trick to find all cmdlets when searching by a specific noun or verb.<\/p>\n

\"Hey, <\/strong>When I just open up Windows PowerShell 3.0, an error arises when I try to search for a cmdlet by a noun or verb. The error is “Object reference not set to an instance of an object.” Is there something I can do to solve this problem?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Load all of the modules prior to attempting to search for cmdlets by noun or verb. This approach is shown here, where gmo<\/strong> is an alias for Get-Module<\/strong>, ipmo<\/strong> is an alias for Import-Module<\/strong>, and gcm<\/strong> is an alias for Get-Command<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

gmo -ListAvailable | ipmo<\/p>\n

gcm -noun process<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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