Approved verbs
When PowerShell was designed, somebody apparently found it necessary to define a list of
approved verbs and to recommend to name
cmdlets using verbs of this list. They even thought a user that uses a module that contains functions with unapproved verbs should be warned from such verbs:
import-module .\tabergang
WARNING: The names of some imported commands from the module 'tabergang' include unapproved verbs that might make them less discoverable…
This decision is really unfortunate: when trying to use
tab expansion because the list of cmdlets that start with verbs such as
get- etc. seem almost endlessly.
It is, however, possible to mitigate these problems by using
aliases, which don't have such restrictions, and allow to give alternate names to cmdlets.
Note that
PowerShell considers some words such as
new to be verbs although in English grammar they are not.
A
list of approved verbs is
here.