PowerShell: Find Command

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 has alias gcm

Get-Command *z*

List command names that contain z.

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-Object has alias select