Getting Started with PowerShell

Script modules

To turn this into a module in the simplest way, we can just change the file extension to .psm1. Once we have done this, we can import the module by pointing directly to the .psm1 file, as follows:

Similar to when we dot-sourced the script file, here we also don't see any real indication that the import-module cmdlet did anything. If we look at the output of get-command now, we can see that these functions are now listed as part of a module. We can, also, use the –Module parameter for get-command to show all the functions that were exported from the module:

Now, these functions are much easier to discover, since we can see that they ...