Chapter 2. Building Blocks
Even though books, videos, and the Internet can be helpful in your efforts to learn PowerShell, you will find that your greatest ally in this quest is PowerShell itself. In this chapter, we will look at two fundamental weapons in any PowerShell scripter's arsenal, the Get-Command
and Get-Help
cmdlets. The topics covered in this chapter include the following:
- Finding commands using
Get-Command
- Finding commands using tab completion
- Using
Get-Help
to understand cmdlets - Interpreting the command syntax