Using Help Information Effectively
Cmdlet help information is very detailed and you may find it difficult to follow when you first start
learning about a given cmdlet. Luckily Get-Help makes it possible to access specific areas of help
information in varying degrees of detail. Using Get-Help effectively allows you to access the
information you are interested in without displaying the entire help information available for a cmdlet.
There are three versions of Get-Help that display help information differently depending on how they
are used:
Get-Help displays help information without pausing when the console display is full.
Parameters are used with Get-Help to determine the type of information and detail level
displayed. The basic syntax is Get-Help < cmdlet name > < parameters > .
Help is a function based on Get-Help that displays help information one screenful at a time,
pausing when the console screen is full to allow the operator to advance the display either one
full page using the space bar, or one line using the Enter key. The parameters available for
Get-Help also work with Help . The basic syntax is Help < cmdlet name > < parameters > .
-? is a pseudo - parameter that displays basic help information without pausing when the
console display is full. -? takes no parameters as input like the other versions of Get-Help .
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