PowerShell Guide

Get-Help

Get-Help is the most helpful command there is.

It exposes inline help for commands and about topics built into the system.

Get-Help is part of the trinity of discoverability.

General Help

To get general help about PowerShell, we can use:


Get-Help

Command Help

To get help about a particular command, we can use:


Get-Help Get-Help

Online Help

If a command has a .Link, the first link will give you online help.


Get-Help Get-Command -Online

This will bring you to microsoft’s get-command help

About Topics

To get help about a particular topic, we can use:


Get-Help about_Variables
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