{"id":4824,"date":"2012-10-14T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/10\/14\/powertip-use-the-get-command-cmdlet-to-view-syntax\/"},"modified":"2012-10-14T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-the-get-command-cmdlet-to-view-syntax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-the-get-command-cmdlet-to-view-syntax\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use the Get-Command Cmdlet to View Syntax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Learn how to use the Windows PowerShell cmdlet,&nbsp;<b>Get-Command<\/b>, to view the syntax of a command.<\/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 you use the&nbsp;<b>Get-Command<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet to view the syntax of a Windows PowerShell cmdlet?<\/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;<b>Syntax<\/b><i>&nbsp;<\/i>switch (<b>gcm<\/b>&nbsp;is an alias for the&nbsp;<b>Get-Command<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">gcm new-vm -Syntax<\/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\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to use the Windows PowerShell cmdlet,&nbsp;Get-Command, to view the syntax of a command. &nbsp;How can you use the&nbsp;Get-Command&nbsp;cmdlet to view the syntax of a Windows PowerShell cmdlet? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Syntax&nbsp;switch (gcm&nbsp;is an alias for the&nbsp;Get-Command&nbsp;cmdlet): gcm new-vm -Syntax<\/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-4824","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: Learn how to use the Windows PowerShell cmdlet,&nbsp;Get-Command, to view the syntax of a command. &nbsp;How can you use the&nbsp;Get-Command&nbsp;cmdlet to view the syntax of a Windows PowerShell cmdlet? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Syntax&nbsp;switch (gcm&nbsp;is an alias for the&nbsp;Get-Command&nbsp;cmdlet): gcm new-vm -Syntax<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824","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=4824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824\/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=4824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}