<p>I just found /n softwares free Powershell NetCmdlets, and after playing with them I love the functionality they bring to the command line.  So it raises the question what are your favorite Cmdlets, and how do you use them?</p>

[{'answer_id': 2699, 'author': 'Pat', 'author_id': 36, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/36', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>While semi-related to your question, it does not entirely fit the Powershell NetCmdlets motif. But I wanted to post it anyhow as I use it daily and it may help others. Simply making shift-control-c key combo into displaying the visual studio command prompt.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 4692, 'author': 'Matt Hamilton', 'author_id': 615, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/615', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I wrote a PowerShell provider to give me access to IE7\'s RSS feed store, and had lots of fun with it.</p>\n\n<p>It lets me <code>cd</code> to a drive called <code>feed:</code> and navigate around folders and feeds using <code>cd</code> and <code>dir</code>.<br>\nIt even lets you add or remove feeds from the command line.</p>\n\n<p>See this post on my blog as an example:</p>\n\n<p><a href="http://www.madprops.org/blog/getting-the-most-prolific-authors-in-your-feeds/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Getting the Most Prolific Authors in your Feeds</a></p>\n\n<p>It\'s rolled up into the PowerShell Community Extensions project nowadays, which you can find on CodePlex <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/PowerShellCX" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 5498, 'author': 'Leon Bambrick', 'author_id': 49, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/49', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>there\'s an <a href="http://blog.sapien.com/index.php/2008/06/23/out-twitter/" rel="noreferrer">out-twitter script</a> i use for posting to twitter. it\'s nice, as it means you can send something to twitter without the risk of being distracted by a browser.</p>\n\n<p>i added an alias for it, "twit".</p>\n\n<p>so now you can type, for example:</p>\n\n<pre><code>PS C:\\&gt;"trying out stack overflow" | twit\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>and if successfully lodged, it will return an integer that identifies your post.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 10160, 'author': 'Steven Murawski', 'author_id': 1233, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1233', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>While it is not as fun as Out-Twitter, my favorite cmdlet is Get-Member, since it allows me to examine any of the objects I'm working with and find out new properties and methods, as well as the underlying type of the object.</p>\n\n<p>If I did not choose Get-Member, I would have to go with Out-Clipboard from the PowerShell Community Extensions (PSCX), as it enables a whole lot of clipboard automation and makes using PowerShell for code templating much easier.</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 11452, 'author': 'EBGreen', 'author_id': 1358, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1358', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Well it is a little bland, but I would vote for Get-Help.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 13905, 'author': 'slipsec', 'author_id': 1635, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1635', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>ls (Get-ChildItem)\nrm (Remove-Item)\nps (Get-Process)</p>\n\n<p>and the rest of my familiar commands that now "just work" :)</p>\n\n<p>but seriously... New-Object would have to get my vote.  With it, powershell can do ANYTHING :)</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 64636, 'author': 'Jaykul', 'author_id': 8718, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/8718', 'pm_score': 4, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>As a programmer/hacker, <code>Get-Member</code> and <code>Get-Command</code> are the ones I use more than any others, but the ones I use to show off are <code>Select-Control</code> and <code>Send-Keys</code> from <a href="http://CodePlex.com/WASP" rel="nofollow noreferrer">WASP</a>, the <a href="http://PowerGadgets.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">PowerGadgets</a>, and some of my own stuff written in WPF against CTP2 or <a href="http://CodePlex.com/PoshConsole" rel="nofollow noreferrer">PoshConsole</a> ;-)</p>\n\n<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/HCO2p.png" alt="Weather in PoshConsole"></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 66998, 'author': 'halr9000', 'author_id': 6637, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/6637', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>Get-Member, hands down. No, it's not very glamorous, but the ability to inspect objects interactively beats interrupting your work to go hit up MSDN.</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 175458, 'author': 'Jeffery Hicks', 'author_id': 25508, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/25508', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>I find Get-member to be the most useful native PowerShell cmdlet. I also use Get-WMIObject on a daily basis.  Even if I'm troubleshooting a VBScript problem for someone I'll turn to Get-WMIObject because I can work with WMI interactively.</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 179754, 'author': 'Peter Seale', 'author_id': 25911, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/25911', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p><strong>Set-Clipboard</strong>, found on the PowerShell Community Extensions project on CodePlex. Usually when I\'m working in PowerShell, the ultimate goal is to generate some text or even an Excel spreadsheet. Set-Clipboard eliminates all of the intermediate "save it to a file, ok now open that file, select all, copy to clipboard" steps--you do it all in PowerShell.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 191214, 'author': 'stahler', 'author_id': 26811, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/26811', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>The combination of Get-WMIObject and Get-Member is something I use throughout the workday.  Working on Get-Sandwich.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 206010, 'author': 'jwmiller5', 'author_id': 7824, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/7824', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p><strong>export-csv</strong>. This creates a nice report in a manager-friendly Excel-ready format. Bonus points if you have community extensions installed and user <strong>send-smtpmail</strong>. </p>\n\n<p>Management report in their inbox from the commandline. Nice.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 7149399, 'author': 'Arcass', 'author_id': 207670, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/207670', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I do alot of work with Microsoft Lync 2010 which includes a set of synthetic for testing functionality. Of these Test-CsPstnOutboundCall is my favourite.</p>\n\n<p>For general scripting got to vote for get-member and get-help :)</p>\n'}]
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