Show Us Your Cmdlets!

This little one-liner will show the most common verbs among all the cmdlets installed in the current PowerShell session.

   1: PS > gcm -CommandType cmdlet | Group Verb | Sort Count -Descending | Select -First 10

   2: 

   3: Count Name                      Group

   4: —– —-                      —–

   5:   128 Get                       {Get-Acl, Get-ADObject, Get-Alias, Get-Authentico…

   6:    46 Set                       {Set-Acl, Set-Alias, Set-AuthenticodeSignature, S…

   7:    36 New                       {New-Alias, New-CDDrive, New-Client, New-Cluster,…

   8:    34 Remove                    {Remove-CDDrive, Remove-Cluster, Remove-CustomFie…

   9:    15 Send                      {Send-Email, Send-FTP, Send-IM, Send-Mail, Send-M…

  10:    14 Write                     {Write-BZip2, Write-Clipboard, Write-Debug, Write…

  11:    13 Invoke                    {Invoke-Command, Invoke-Expression, Invoke-Histor…

  12:    11 Out                       {Out-Chart, Out-Clipboard, Out-Default, Out-File,…

  13:    10 Add                       {Add-Contact, Add-Content, Add-History, Add-Membe…

  14:    10 Move                      {Move-Cluster, Move-Datacenter, Move-Folder, Move…

I just realized the above is the CLI equivalent of looking at a screenshot of someone’s Windows desktop and wondering what all those tray icons do. 

What snapins do you think I have installed?  What about you guys?

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