Powershell Basic commands with Description
Powershell cmdlets |
Description |
| $Psversiontable | Check Powershell version |
| Get-Help | Displays help about Windows PowerShell cmdlets and concepts |
| Update-help | Downloads the newest help files for Windows PowerShell modules and installs them on your computer |
| Get-Process | List the Process running on PC |
| Get-Services | List the list of services running on PC |
| Get-command | Gets all commands that are installed on the computer, including cmdlets, aliases, functions, workflows, filters, scripts, and applications |
| New-Alias | Make a new alias. |
| Get-alias | Gets the aliases of Powershell cmdlets. |
| Import-alias | Imports an alias list from a file |
| Export-alias | Exports information about currently defined aliases to a file. |
| Set-alias | The Set-Alias cmdlet creates or changes an alias (alternate name) for a cmdlet |
| Out-File | Sends output to a File. |
| Get-eventlog | Gets the events in an event log, or a list of the event logs, on the local or remote computers. |
| Get-NetFirewallRule | Display a list of all Windows Firewall rules. |
| Set-ItemProperty | Creates or changes the value of a property of an item. You also use Set-ItemProperty to create and change registry values and data. |
| New-Item | Creates a new item and sets its value.New-Item is used to create files and folders. In the registry, New-Item creates registry keys and entries. |
| Get-Item | Gets the item at the specified location. |
| Set-Item | Changes the value of an item to the value specified in the command.The file system provider does not support this action. |
| Copy-Item | The Copy-Item cmdlet copies an item from one location to another location in the same namespace. For example, it can copy a file to a folder, but it cannot copy a file to a certificate drive. |
| Clear-Item | Deletes the contents of an item, but does not delete the item. |
| Rename-Item | The Rename-Item cmdlet changes the name of a specified item. This cmdlet does not affect the content of the item being renamed. |
| Remove-Item | The Remove-Item cmdlet deletes one or more items. Because it is supported by many providers, it can delete many different types of items, including files, directories, registry keys, variables, aliases, and functions. |
| Move-Item | The Move-Item cmdlet moves an item, including its properties, contents, and child items, from one location to another location. The locations must be supported by the same provider. For example, it can move a file or subdirectory from one directory to another or move a registry subkey from one key to another. When you move an item, it is added to the new location and deleted from its original location. |
| Invoke-Item | The Invoke-Item cmdlet performs the default action on the specified item. For example, it runs an executable file or opens a document file in the application associated with the document file type. The default action depends on the type of item and is determined by the Windows PowerShell provider that provides access to the data. |
| New-ItemProperty | Creates a new property for an item and sets its value. For example, you can use New-ItemProperty to create and change registry values and data, which are properties of a registry key. |
| Get-ItemProperty | The Get-ItemProperty cmdlet gets the properties of the specified items. For example, you can use Get-ItemProperty to get the value of the LastAccessTime property of a file object. You can also use Get-ItemProperty to view registry entries and their values. |
| Set-ItemProperty | The Set-ItemProperty cmdlet changes the value of the property of the specified item. You can use the cmdlet to establish or change the properties of items. For example, you can use Set-ItemProperty to set the value of the IsReadOnly property of a file object to true. You also use Set-ItemProperty to create and change registry values and data. For example, you can add a new registry entry to a key and establish or change its value. |
| Copy-ItemProperty | The Copy-ItemProperty cmdlet copies a property and value from a specified location to another location. For example, you can use Copy-ItemProperty to copy one or more registry entries from one registry key to another registry key |
| Clear-ItemProperty | The Clear-ItemProperty cmdlet deletes the value of a property, but it does not delete the property. You can use this cmdlet to delete the data from a registry value. |
| Rename-ItemProperty | The Rename-ItemProperty cmdlet changes the name of a specified item property. The value of the property is not changed. For example, you can use Rename-ItemProperty to change the name of a registry entry. |
| Remove-ItemProperty | The Remove-ItemProperty cmdlet deletes a property and its value from an item. You can use it to delete registry values and the data that they store. |
| Compare-object | Compares two sets of objects. |
| Export-Csv | The Export-Csv cmdlet makes it easy to export data as a comma-separated values (CSV) file. |
| Export-Clixml | The Export-CliXml cmdlet creates an XML-based representation of an object or objects and stores it in a file. |
| ConvertTo-Html | ConvertTo-Html cmdlet makes it very easy to view Windows PowerShell output in a Web page |
| Get-Content | The Get-Content cmdlet gets the content of the item at the location specified by the path, such as the text in a file. It reads the content one line at a time and returns a collection of objects , each of which represents a line of content. |
| Sort-Object | Sorts objects by property values.The Sort-Object cmdlet sorts objects in ascending or descending order based on the values of properties of the object. |
| Select-Object | The Select-Object cmdlet selects specified properties of an object or set of objects. It can also select unique objects, a specified number of objects, or objects in a specified position in an array. |
| Get-Location | Gets information about the current working location or a location stack |
| Get-History | Gets a list of the commands entered during the current session |
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