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PowerShell Basic Commands

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PowerShell Commands List

Here are 25 basic PowerShell commands:

Command name Alias Description

Set-Location - cd, chdir, sl - Sets the current working location to a specified location.

Get-Content - cat, gc, type - Gets the content of the item at the specified location.

Add-Content - ac - Adds content to the specified items, such as adding words to a file.

Set-Content - sc - Writes or replaces the content in an item with new content.

Copy-Item - copy, cp, cpi - Copies an item from one location to another.

Remove-Item - del, erase, rd, ri, rm, rmdir - Deletes the specified items.

Move-Item - mi, move, mv - Moves an item from one location to another.

Set-Item - si - Changes the value of an item to the value specified in the command.

New-Item - ni - Creates a new item.

Start-Job - sajb - Starts a Windows PowerShell background job.

Compare-Object - compare, dif - Compares two sets of objects.

Group-Object - group - Groups objects that contain the same value for specified properties.

Invoke-WebRequest - curl, iwr, wget - Gets content from a web page on the Internet.

Measure-Object - measure - Calculates the numeric properties of objects, and the characters, words, and lines in string objects, such as files …

Resolve-Path - rvpa - Resolves the wildcard characters in a path, and displays the path contents.

Resume-Job - rujb - Restarts a suspended job

Set-Variable - set, sv - Sets the value of a variable. Creates the variable if one with the requested name does not exist.

Show-Command - shcm - Creates Windows PowerShell commands in a graphical command window.

Sort-Object - sort - Sorts objects by property values.

Start-Service - sasv - Starts one or more stopped services.

Start-Process - saps, start - Starts one or more processes on the local computer.

Suspend-Job - sujb - Temporarily stops workflow jobs.

Wait-Job - wjb - Suppresses the command prompt until one or all of the Windows PowerShell background jobs running in the session are …

Where-Object - powershell_basic_commands, where - Selects objects from a collection based on their property values.

Write-Output - echo, write - Sends the specified objects to the next command in the pipeline. If the command is the last command in the pipeline,…

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