PowerShell: Find Command

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Find Command, List Commands

Get-Command name
Check if a command name is available. (Command means any of {Cmdlet, Alias, Function, filter, Script , app}.) Result includes any app in the Environment Variable $env:path
Get-Command *z*
List command names that contain z.
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list all commands that contains z in name.
Get-Command name -UseFuzzyMatching
List command names that match letters in name.
Get-Command name -all
Search all, including commands of the same type that have the same name. By default, Get-Command gets only the commands that run when you type the command name.
Get-Command name | Format-List
Make the full path of the command visible.
Get-Command name | select -Property Path
Show just full path of the command.
(select is alias of Select-Object)

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