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Now before we go,

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I want to show you a few other things that you can work with in

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PowerShell that might make it easy to find commands or to even just

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navigate commands that you may have run.

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Now, first off,

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you can hit the up arrow at the prompt to go back and

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find the commands that you ran before.

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So if I want rerun that ping command,

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I can just use the up arrow to go and find the commands.

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There was also a little utility here in PowerShell that's part of a module

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called PSReadLine, and they way that this works is I can press Ctrl+R and I get

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this little search here, so it lets you know that I ran that Get‑Vegetable

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command. And you can see as soon as I started typing Get, there we go, so there

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is Get‑Verb, and if I wanted to, oh,

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that's not what I want, I want the G, there we go, so I can go back

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and I can find things with that Ctrl+R, very nice and quick and easy

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to find cmdlets I may have run before without having to retype things.

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Now, I also mentioned, you know,

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you also have tab completion. So I can do Get‑Ser and hit Tab, and it

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will auto complete, and Shift+Tab will go backwards.

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So let's go back here to Get‑Service because another fun thing here,

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the parameter name is ‑Name, that's the default.

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So it knows if I hit Tab,

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that's all I'm doing here, it is cycling through all

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of the possible service names.

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So there's a lot of cool things that PowerShell will do to

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make your life easier, you just have to get in the habit of

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using that tab completion.

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It doesn't work all the time, but it does work quite a bit.

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The last thing I want to show you here is another command called Show‑Command.

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So if you run Show‑Command all by itself,

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this will give you a GUI pop‑up of all the possible commands on

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your system, it's very similar to the Get‑Command.

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Now there's another nice benefit, though.

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I'm going to fine tune this, and let's do Get‑Service.

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Now I get all of the parameter sets, that's the technical term for

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those different ways of using it, and I can say,

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you know what, I want to find this by the, say DisplayName, and I want to find

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all the ones that start with win*. You can either run the command, which will

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paste it now into the command prompt, or I could have copied it so I could then

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paste it into some script I'm working on.

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You can also use Show‑Command right from the prompt here

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and say I want to do Show‑Command, say Get‑Vegetable,

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I'll use tab completion there.

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Now, this doesn't have too many options here.

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Let's say you know what, I just want to use that

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RootOnly. Click Run, and there we go.

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So I don't necessarily have to know all of the syntax, I can discover what the

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syntax is by using that little GUI, the Show‑Command GUI, and pick and choose

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what I need from those different options, and then PowerShell will display the

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command with all the parameters that I need.

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So it's a nice,

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handy and easy way to learn about PowerShell and how to build these commands.

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The more you spend time in PowerShell,

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the easier it will be and the more fun you're going to have.

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So, I think that's enough for looking at commands. Let's go back to the slides and wrap it all up.