| 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 | ?, 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,… |
To run a powershell script from a command line, the powershell script should have a PS1 exrtension such as myscript.ps1. Then from the command line, one would enter the PS command, followed by the file. For example: PS c:\users\me\desktop\myscript.ps1
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