{"id":7681,"date":"2015-02-22T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/02\/22\/powertip-check-syntax-options-for-powershell-cmdlet\/"},"modified":"2022-07-29T10:36:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T17:36:28","slug":"powertip-check-syntax-options-for-powershell-cmdlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-check-syntax-options-for-powershell-cmdlet\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Check Syntax Options for PowerShell Cmdlet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use the <\/span><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Get-Command<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\"> cmdlet to check syntax options for a Windows PowerShell cmdlet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/8284.Q.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/8284.Q.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" \" \/><\/a>\u00a0How can I easily find syntax options (parameter sets) that exist for a particular Windows PowerShell cmdlet?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/3058.A.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/3058.A.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" \" \/><\/a>\u00a0Use the <b>Get-Command <\/b>cmdlet and check the <b>Definition<\/b> property, for example:\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">\n  (Get-Command Stop-Process).Definition\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\">\n  \u00a0\u00a0<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: Use the Get-Command cmdlet to check syntax options for a Windows PowerShell cmdlet. \u00a0How can I easily find syntax options (parameter sets) that exist for a particular Windows PowerShell cmdlet? \u00a0Use the Get-Command cmdlet and check the Definition property, for example: (Get-Command Stop-Process).Definition \u00a0\u00a0<\/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-7681","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 the Get-Command cmdlet to check syntax options for a Windows PowerShell cmdlet. \u00a0How can I easily find syntax options (parameter sets) that exist for a particular Windows PowerShell cmdlet? \u00a0Use the Get-Command cmdlet and check the Definition property, for example: (Get-Command Stop-Process).Definition \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7681","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=7681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7681\/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=7681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}