{"id":3940,"date":"2013-03-28T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/03\/28\/powertip-find-powershell-noun-distribution\/"},"modified":"2013-03-28T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-powershell-noun-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-powershell-noun-distribution\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find PowerShell Noun Distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Learn how to see which nouns in Windows PowerShell are used most.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I find which Windows PowerShell cmdlet nouns are used most?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Import all the modules, then use the&nbsp;<strong>Get-Command<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet to retrieve all cmdlet information, and group by noun. You can also use the following commands to sort the results by count.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><strong>Note&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Gmo<\/strong>&nbsp;is an alias for&nbsp;<strong>Get-Module<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>ipmo<\/strong>&nbsp;is an alias for&nbsp;<strong>Import-Module<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>gcm<\/strong>&nbsp;is an alias for&nbsp;<strong>Get-Command<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>group<\/strong>&nbsp;is an alias for&nbsp;<strong>Group-Object<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>sort<\/strong>&nbsp;is an alias for&nbsp;<strong>Sort-Object<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>more<\/strong>&nbsp;is a Windows PowerShell function.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 180px\">gmo -li | ipmo<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 180px\">gcm | group noun -NoElement | sort count -Descending | more<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to see which nouns in Windows PowerShell are used most. &nbsp;How can I find which Windows PowerShell cmdlet nouns are used most? &nbsp;Import all the modules, then use the&nbsp;Get-Command&nbsp;cmdlet to retrieve all cmdlet information, and group by noun. You can also use the following commands to sort the results by count. Note&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Gmo&nbsp;is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-3940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to see which nouns in Windows PowerShell are used most. &nbsp;How can I find which Windows PowerShell cmdlet nouns are used most? &nbsp;Import all the modules, then use the&nbsp;Get-Command&nbsp;cmdlet to retrieve all cmdlet information, and group by noun. You can also use the following commands to sort the results by count. Note&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Gmo&nbsp;is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}