This is a part of an on-going blog series written by Adam Gordon. Each week, Adam will walk you through a PowerShell command, showing you when and how to use each one. This week, Adam covers Find-Script. 

When to use Find-Script

The Find-Script cmdlet finds a specified script in registered repositories.

 

How to use Find-Script

Find all available scripts:

Find-Script

Find-Script finds all available scripts.

 

Find a script and format the output as a list:

Find-Script -Name “StartCCMexec” -RequiredVersion 1.0 -Repository “PSGallery” | Format-List * -Force

This command finds “StartCCMexec” in the PSGallery repository, and then passes the resulting PSRepositoryItemInfo object to the Format-List cmdlet.

 

Find all versions of a script:

Find-Script -Name “New-TextMenu” -AllVersions

This command finds all versions of New-TextMenu.

 

Find scripts with workflows: 

Find-Script -Includes “Workflow” -Repository “PSGallery”

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