We're reaching the end of our time together on
Installing and Running PowerShell.
But, I still need to show you how to run commands in
PowerShell, and even more importantly,
how you can figure out what you can run. Microsoft designed PowerShell
so that you can discover what to run and how to run it without having
to resort to extensive searching online.
For many people new to PowerShell,
they open up a new session and then stare at that blinking cursor.
It just sits there, just daring them to type something.
But what? What can I do in a PowerShell session?
What can I do in this PowerShell session?
How can I even figure out what I can do?
This is the proverbial "I don't know what I don't know" paradox.
So let us show you how to discover what commands you can run and
hopefully at least get you kick started to using PowerShell.
Now, of course,
this leads to a question which you may not have even
considered, what exactly is a PowerShell command?
As you learn PowerShell,
you'll encounter several terms, so I think I need to take
a few minutes here to show you what these things are so you understand what's what.