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Comment by bbkane | Hacker News Reader

I really find it difficult to find the specific command I want. The verb-noun convention doesn't really lend itself to nested subcommands. At least with the Azure CLI I can generally navigate to the command and action I want with tab completion

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The Verb-Noun convention isn't that bad once you learn the approved verbs well enough to know which one the command you're looking for would be using. After you have the right verb, tab-completion works fine. Also, `Get-Command` (built-in alias `gcm`) is very helpful. E.g.

  PS> gcm *build*

  CommandType     Name                                               Version    Source
  -----------     ----                                               -------    ------
  Alias           Build-Checkpoint                                   5.8.6      InvokeBuild
  Alias           Build-Parallel                                     5.8.6      InvokeBuild
  Alias           Invoke-Build                                       5.8.6      InvokeBuild
  Application     mcbuilder.exe                                      10.0.2200… C:\Windows\system32\mcbuilder.exe

Or find everything from a module:

  PS> gcm -m InvokeBuild

  CommandType     Name                                               Version    Source
  -----------     ----                                               -------    ------
  Alias           Build-Checkpoint                                   5.8.6      InvokeBuild
  Alias           Build-Parallel                                     5.8.6      InvokeBuild
  Alias           Invoke-Build                                       5.8.6      InvokeBuild

And at least if you use `MenuComplete` for tab (`Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Key Tab -Function MenuComplete` in your profile), you can also just write `*<noun>` and hit tab. It will offer completions regardless of the verb.

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