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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.