Basics of Cmdlets
Cmdlets are at the core of PowerShell. As already noted in The object-oriented model, a cmdlet is a specialised .NET object, with output formatting that makes sense to an administrator.
In this article, we discuss the following:
Getting help information for a cmdlet Parameter sets Positional parameters Help on specific parameters Assigning values to a parameter Getting help information for a cmdlet Let us pick a common cmdlet: Get-ChildItem, a simple, useful cmdlet.