Names

Names: Verb-Noun: Names That Explain Themselves, Parameters, Values and Switches, Short Names: Aliases.

Updated November 10, 2026

1. Verb-Noun: Names That Explain Themselves (Novice): Every PowerShell command is named with a verb, a dash and a noun, such as Get-Process, so once you know the pattern you can guess a command's name before you look it up, and Get-Verb lists the verbs.
2. Parameters, Values and Switches (Novice): A parameter tells a command more about what you want, written as a dash and a name with a value after it, or as a switch with no value, and Tab and Ctrl+Space show you every parameter a command has.
3. Short Names: Aliases (Novice): An alias is a short second name for a command, such as ls or dir for Get-ChildItem, and Get-Alias shows what an alias really runs, so you can use short names at the prompt and full names in scripts.