{"id":7921,"date":"2015-02-10T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/02\/10\/powertip-find-what-a-powershell-command-does\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:30:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:30:41","slug":"powertip-find-what-a-powershell-command-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-what-a-powershell-command-does\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find What a PowerShell Command Does"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Learn how to find out what a Windows PowerShell command does before it does it.<\/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;I found a Windows PowerShell command on the Internet that might be what I need, but how can I see what<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;it does before it messes something up?<\/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;You can add the&nbsp;<b>&ndash;WhatIf<\/b>&nbsp;parameter to all Windows PowerShell cmdlets that make changes automatically, <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Stop-Process &ndash;name MYPROCESS -WhatIf<\/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: Learn how to find out what a Windows PowerShell command does before it does it. &nbsp;I found a Windows PowerShell command on the Internet that might be what I need, but how can I see what&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;it does before it messes something up? &nbsp;You can add the&nbsp;&ndash;WhatIf&nbsp;parameter to all Windows [&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-7921","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 find out what a Windows PowerShell command does before it does it. &nbsp;I found a Windows PowerShell command on the Internet that might be what I need, but how can I see what&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;it does before it messes something up? &nbsp;You can add the&nbsp;&ndash;WhatIf&nbsp;parameter to all Windows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921","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=7921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921\/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=7921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}