Working with Get-Help
Windows PowerShell is intuitively easy to use; learn simply by doing. Online help makes it even easier to use the program. The help system in Windows PowerShell can be entered by several methods. To learn about using Windows PowerShell, use the Get-Help cmdlet as shown here:
get-help get-help
This command prints out help about the Get-Help cmdlet. The output from this cmdlet is shown here:
NAME Get-Help SYNOPSIS Displays information about Windows PowerShell cmdlets and concepts. SYNTAX Get-Help [[-name] <string>] [-component <string[]>] [-functionality <string []>] [-role <string[]>] [-category <string[]>] [-full] [<CommonParameters>] Get-Help [[-name] <string>] [-component <string[]>] [-functionality <string []>] [-role <string[]>] ...
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