If you haven’t already, run, do not walk to the MSDN Code Gallery to grab the PowerShell Pack (a part of the upcoming Windows 7 Resource Kit).
As announced on the PowerShell team blog, and discussed at great length on Episode 88 of the PowerScripting Podcast, the PowerShell Pack is a set of ten modules, nested into one for ease of installation. There is a ton of great stuff in here. I wrote up a bit of code to list all of the included functions:
$m = Get-Module PowerShellPack
$n = $m.NestedModules | Where-Object { $_.Name -ne 'WPK' }
foreach ( $module in $n ) {
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "Module: $( $module.name )" -NoNewline
$module.ExportedCommands.Values | Sort-Object Name | Format-Wide Name
}
As you see in the Where-Object clause there, I am excluding the WPK module. The reason is simply due to the nature of that module, it has hundreds of functions and is really deserving of its own blog post—or book for that matter.
I’m not going to list the full output because I think that’s just cheesy Google gaming, but I will leave you with a teaser:
PS > Get-Module powershellpack | select -ExpandProperty NestedModules
ModuleType Name ExportedCommands
---------- ---- ----------------
Script IsePack {Push-CurrentFileLocation, Select-CurrentTextAsVariable, C...
Script TaskScheduler {Remove-Task, Get-ScheduledTask, Stop-Task, Add-TaskTrigge...
Script WPK {Get-DependencyProperty, New-ModelVisual3D, New-DiscreteVe...
Script FileSystem {Get-FreeDiskSpace, New-Zip, Resolve-ShortcutFile, Mount-S...
Script DotNet {Get-CommandWithParameterType, Get-ProgID, Get-Type}
Script PSImageTools {Add-CropFilter, Add-RotateFlipFilter, Add-OverlayFilter, ...
Script PSRss {Read-Article, New-Feed, Remove-Article, Remove-Feed...}
Script PSCodeGen {New-Enum, New-ScriptCmdlet, New-PInvoke}
Script PSUserTools {Start-ProcessAsAdministrator, Get-CurrentUser, Test-IsAdm...
Script PSSystemTools {Test-32Bit, Get-USB, Get-OSVersion, Get-MultiTouchMaximum...
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