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With all of this in mind,

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let's jump into a PowerShell 7 session, and you'll see how

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easy it is to run and work with commands.

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All right, so I'm in Windows PowerShell,

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and I am using Windows Terminal just because I think that's

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the modern way to be using PowerShell.

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And for me, it's a nice, easier way to work.

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And just to show you, I'll show you the PSVersionTable,

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and I am running the latest version, 7.1.2, your version obviously may differ,

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and hopefully you are running at least this version of PowerShell to

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line up everything that I'm going to be showing you.

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So we'll start with Get‑Command. Get‑Command will show me all of

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the commands that are available on my system.

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Now you can see that scroll by there pretty quickly.

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I can refine this by doing Get‑Command and specify the command types,

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such as cmdlet and function. And in this case, this is pretty much

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going to give me the same. In Windows PowerShell, I believe the

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default gave you lots more information, and in PowerShell 7 they have

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kind of fine‑tuned that, but if you want to take real control over

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what shows up,

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you can use that command‑type parameter. So you can get a

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command even if you know part of the name.

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Like say, hey,

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I want to show all the commands that have disk in the name, so you can use the

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wildcard character. There you can see some applications.

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Those are the commands that are in the system path, programs, or applications,

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not necessarily PowerShell tools.

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So let's refine the command. Let's clear the screen here,

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and let's do Get‑Command, and again,

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just the disk commands, and I'll limit it to cmdlets and functions.

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Now my list gets a little bit shorter,

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and I can kind of continue to refine to find the command that I am looking for.

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Now, as I mentioned, commands follow a standard naming convention using verbs.

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We can get those verbs with the Get‑Verb cmdlet,

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and I'll pipe that to more because this is going to scroll a number of things.

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You can hit the Spacebar to go to the next page, Enter

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just goes one line, or Q to quit.

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I'm just going to quit out of that list. So you can see all

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of the verbs that are available to me.

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So let's say I want to find all the commands that have

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mount as the verb. Get‑Command ‑Verb Mount.

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Pretty cool.

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So there we go. So I can find what I'm looking for if I have

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an idea about the name or the verb. Like, I can do a similar

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thing, by the way, with the noun.

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If I say, now that I've looked through earlier, I saw,

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oh,

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disk image seems to be a noun, what are all the

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things that I can do with that noun?

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All right, so I can dismount, get, or mount.

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And this,

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too, will allow you to use wildcards. So I can say show me all of the ones

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where the noun starts with disk, so it will be DiskImage,

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and then whatever else.

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So there you go.

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So I've got DiskImage, I've got Disk, I've got DiskSNV, lots of other options there.