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Extract a Cmdlet’s Parameters into a Collection with PowerShell

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While building a script to help out a reader of this blog, I came up with a handy little cmdlet to retrieve the parameters of a cmdlet and place them into a collection.

Function Get-ParameterList

{

    [cmdletBinding()]

    Param ($Cmdlet)

        Write-Verbose "== Cmdlet: Get-ParameterList =========================="

        Write-Verbose "Parameter - `$Cmdlet: $Cmdlet"

        $List = (get-help $Cmdlet -parameter * |

            Select-Object -Property Name |

            ForEach -Process {$_.name})

 

        Write-Verbose "Sending $($List.count) Items to the pipeline."

        Write-Output $List

        Write-Verbose "__ End Function: Get-ParameterList ____________________"

    <#

    .SYNOPSIS

    Extracts cmdlet parameters

 

    .DESCRIPTION

    Extracts the parameters from a supplied cmdelt and sends then as a collection

    into the PowerShell Pipeline.

 

    .PARAMETER Cmdlet

    The name of the cmdlet whose parameters you want to extract.

 

    .EXAMPLE

    Get-ParameterList Set-MailContact

 

    Sends a collection of strings containing the names of all of the parameters

    avaliabe to the cmdlet Set-MailContact.

    #>

} # End: Cmdlet: Get-ParameterList

 

 

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