{"id":785,"date":"2014-08-24T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/08\/24\/powertip-find-cmdlets-that-need-timespan-object\/"},"modified":"2014-08-24T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-cmdlets-that-need-timespan-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-cmdlets-that-need-timespan-object\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find Cmdlets that Need TimeSpan Object"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use&nbsp;<\/span><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Get-Command<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">&nbsp;to find cmdlets that need a&nbsp;<\/span><b style=\"font-size:12px\">TimeSpan<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">&nbsp;object for input.<\/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 use Windows PowerShell to find which cmdlets will accept a&nbsp;<b>TimeSpan<\/b>&nbsp;object for input?<\/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>ParameterType<\/b>&nbsp;parameter from the&nbsp;<b>Get-Command<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Get-Command -ParameterType timespan<\/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\" alt=\" \" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use&nbsp;Get-Command&nbsp;to find cmdlets that need a&nbsp;TimeSpan&nbsp;object for input. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find which cmdlets will accept a&nbsp;TimeSpan&nbsp;object for input? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;ParameterType&nbsp;parameter from the&nbsp;Get-Command&nbsp;cmdlet, for example: Get-Command -ParameterType timespan<\/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-785","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&nbsp;Get-Command&nbsp;to find cmdlets that need a&nbsp;TimeSpan&nbsp;object for input. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find which cmdlets will accept a&nbsp;TimeSpan&nbsp;object for input? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;ParameterType&nbsp;parameter from the&nbsp;Get-Command&nbsp;cmdlet, for example: Get-Command -ParameterType timespan<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","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=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/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=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}