Skip to content

Fixes #11356 - Add ExcludeModule parameter to Get-Command #11689

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
merged 1 commit into from
Jan 17, 2025
Merged

Fixes #11356 - Add ExcludeModule parameter to Get-Command #11689

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
48 changes: 38 additions & 10 deletions reference/7.6/Microsoft.PowerShell.Core/Get-Command.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
external help file: System.Management.Automation.dll-Help.xml
Locale: en-US
Module Name: Microsoft.PowerShell.Core
ms.date: 11/09/2024
ms.date: 01/17/2025
online version: https://learn.microsoft.com/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/get-command?view=powershell-7.6&WT.mc_id=ps-gethelp
schema: 2.0.0
title: Get-Command
Expand All @@ -17,20 +17,20 @@ Gets all commands.
### CmdletSet (Default)

```
Get-Command [-Verb <String[]>] [-Noun <String[]>] [-Module <String[]>]
[-FullyQualifiedModule <ModuleSpecification[]>] [-TotalCount <Int32>] [-Syntax] [-ShowCommandInfo]
[[-ArgumentList] <Object[]>] [-All] [-ListImported] [-ParameterName <String[]>]
[-ParameterType <PSTypeName[]>] [<CommonParameters>]
Get-Command [[-ArgumentList] <Object[]>] [-Verb <string[]>] [-Noun <string[]>]
[-Module <string[]>] [-ExcludeModule <string[]>] [-FullyQualifiedModule <ModuleSpecification[]>]
[-TotalCount <int>] [-Syntax] [-ShowCommandInfo] [-All] [-ListImported]
[-ParameterName <string[]>] [-ParameterType <PSTypeName[]>] [<CommonParameters>]
```

### AllCommandSet

```
Get-Command [[-Name] <String[]>] [-Module <String[]>]
[-FullyQualifiedModule <ModuleSpecification[]>] [-CommandType <CommandTypes>] [-TotalCount <Int32>]
[-Syntax] [-ShowCommandInfo] [[-ArgumentList] <Object[]>] [-All] [-ListImported]
[-ParameterName <String[]>] [-ParameterType <PSTypeName[]>] [-UseFuzzyMatching]
[-FuzzyMinimumDistance <UInt32>] [-UseAbbreviationExpansion] [<CommonParameters>]
Get-Command [[-Name] <string[]>] [[-ArgumentList] <Object[]>] [-Module <string[]>]
[-ExcludeModule <string[]>] [-FullyQualifiedModule <ModuleSpecification[]>]
[-CommandType <CommandTypes>] [-TotalCount <int>] [-Syntax] [-ShowCommandInfo] [-All]
[-ListImported] [-ParameterName <string[]>] [-ParameterType <PSTypeName[]>] [-UseFuzzyMatching]
[-FuzzyMinimumDistance <uint>] [-UseAbbreviationExpansion] [<CommonParameters>]
```

## DESCRIPTION
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -324,6 +324,18 @@ Application getconf 0.0.0.0 /usr/bin/getconf
Application command 0.0.0.0 /usr/bin/command
```

### Example 17: Exclude modules from the search for commands

The following example shows the difference in results of searching for commands in all modules and
when you exclude a specific module.

```powershell
PS> (Get-Command *-*Disk*).Count
73
PS> (Get-Command *-*Disk* -ExcludeModule Storage).Count
35
```

## PARAMETERS

### -All
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -425,6 +437,22 @@ Accept pipeline input: True (ByPropertyName)
Accept wildcard characters: False
```

### ExcludeModule

Specify the name of one or more modules to be excluded from the search.

```yaml
Type: System.String[]
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases:

Required: False
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: ByValue (False), ByName (False)
Accept wildcard characters: False
```

### -FullyQualifiedModule

The value can be a module name, a full module specification, or a path to a module file.
Expand Down