{"id":74071,"date":"2015-08-09T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/08\/09\/powertip-find-commands-and-descriptions-from-module\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:46:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:46:40","slug":"powertip-find-commands-and-descriptions-from-module","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-commands-and-descriptions-from-module\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find Commands and Descriptions from Module"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Find commands and their descriptions exported from a Windows PowerShell module.<\/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;How can I see the commands with their descriptions that are available in a new Windows PowerShell module?<\/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 the&nbsp;<b>Get-Command<\/b>&nbsp;(<b>gcm<\/b>&nbsp;is an alias) cmdlet and specify the module. Then select the name and create <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;a custom property to retrieve the description from&nbsp;<b>Get-Help<\/b>, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">gcm -Module psreadline |<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">select name, @{L=&#039;description&#039;; E={(get-help $_).description.text}}<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><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: Find commands and their descriptions exported from a Windows PowerShell module. &nbsp;How can I see the commands with their descriptions that are available in a new Windows PowerShell module? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Command&nbsp;(gcm&nbsp;is an alias) cmdlet and specify the module. Then select the name and create &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;a custom property to retrieve [&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-74071","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: Find commands and their descriptions exported from a Windows PowerShell module. &nbsp;How can I see the commands with their descriptions that are available in a new Windows PowerShell module? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Command&nbsp;(gcm&nbsp;is an alias) cmdlet and specify the module. Then select the name and create &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;a custom property to retrieve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74071","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=74071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74071\/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=74071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}