Get-Help - Powershell 2.0 CmdLet

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Get-Help

Short description
Displays information about Windows PowerShell commands and concepts.

Syntax


Description
The Get-Help cmdlet displays information about Windows PowerShell concepts and commands, including cmdlets, provide
rs, functions and scripts. To get a list of all cmdlet help topic titles, type "get-help *". 

If you type "Get-Help" followed by the exact name of a help topic, or by a word unique to a help topic, Get-Help di
splays the topic contents. If you enter a word or word pattern that appears in several help topic titles, Get-Help 
displays a list of the matching titles. If you enter a word that does not appear in any help topic titles, Get-Help
 displays a list of topics that include that word in their contents.

In addition to "get-help", you can also type "help" or "man", which displays one screen of text at a time, or "<cmd
let-name> -?", which is identical to Get-Help but works only for cmdlets. 

You can display the entire help file or selected parts of the file, such as the syntax, parameters, or examples. Yo
u can also use the Online parameter to display an online version of a help file in your Internet browser. These par
ameters have no effect on conceptual help topics.

Conceptual help topics in Windows PowerShell begin with "about_", such as "about_Comparison_Operators". To see all 
"about_" topics, type "get-help about_*". To see a particular topic, type "get-help about_<topic-name>", such as "g
et-help about_Comparison_Operators".