Get-Help is your friend

Index

• Index
  • Basic synatax (Get-Help Get-Help)
  • Help with Parameters
  • For Examples
  • Online Help
  • Full and Detailed
  • Should try showwindow
  • Other ways to use Get-Help
• Help for anything
• Parameters I use most

When I started PowerShell in 2012, I’m not aware that powershell has this great command (in PowerShell we call them as cmdlet ”command-let”) for help..SURPRISED..!! If you ask me, I should say begin learning powershell with this cmdlet. This will help you with almost every cmdlet available out there in powershell.

Let’s get started, Get-Help followed a command displays the provided command help information.

Let’s use Get-Help against Get-Help and find out how this works.

Basic synatax (Get-Help Get-Help)

    Get-Help Get-Help

It helps you with syntax,description,related links,remarks.

Help with Parameters

    Get-Help Get-Help -Parameter *

This helps to display all parameters available with the cmdlet.

For Examples

    Get-Help Get-Help -examples

This helps to display examples about the provided cmdlet and tell us how to use cmdlet. don’t miss to check it.

Online Help

    Get-Help Get-Help -Online

This will kick off your default web browser with detailed online help page.

Full and Detailed

    Get-Help Get-Help -full
    Get-Help Get-Help --Detailed

These commands helps with more detailed information.

Should try showwindow

    Get-Help Get-Help -ShowWindow

This will pop-out complete help in a window and best about this is you can search any word in this. Don’t miss to check it out.

Other ways to use Get-Help

    Help Get-Help
    Get-Help -?

These are the otherways to access PowerShell Get-Help.

Help for anything

Think and anything and put it towards Get-Help. for example – format, operator, comparison Get-Help will find all the available options in PowerShell.

    Get-Help operator

    Get-Help about_operator

    Get-Help format

Here you can see towards every available command is Categorized and respective module information is also available.

Like this we can put across any word in your mind towards Get-Help, it will find solution for you. get used to this cmdlet soon. then you can learn powershell more easily.

Parameters I use most

    -examples
    -parameter
    -online
    -showwindow

These parameters make my life more easy with PowerShell and -showwindow helps a lot, you can search anything easily.