Commands in PowerShell are formed around verb and noun pairs in the form verb-noun.
This feature is useful when finding commands; it allows you to make educated guesses such that there is little need to memorize long lists of commands.
Command naming and discovery
Verbs
The list of verbs is maintained by Microsoft. This formal approach to naming commands greatly assists discovery.
Verbs are words such as Add, Get, Set, and New. In addition to these, we have ConvertFrom and ConvertTo.
The list of verbs is available within PowerShell, as follows:
Get-Verb
Each verb has a group, such as data, life cycle, or security. Complementary actions such as encryption and decryption tend to use verbs in the same group; for example, the...
