Getting Detailed Help Information in Powershell

Windows PowerShell has detailed help documentation for all cmdlets. To display the help topics, use the Get-Help cmdlet. For example, to get help for the Get-Childitem cmdlet, type:

get-help get-childitem

or

get-childitem -?

You can also display one page of each help topic at a time by using the man and help functions. To use them, type man or help followed by the cmdlet name. For example, to display help for the Get-Childitem cmdlet, type

man get-childitem

or

help get-childitem

The Get-Help cmdlet also displays information about conceptual topics in Windows PowerShell. Conceptual help topics begin with the "about_" prefix, such as about_line_editing. (The name of the conceptual topic must be entered in English even on non-English versions of Windows PowerShell.)

To display a list of conceptual topics, type:

get-help about_*

To display a particular help topic, type the topic name, for example:

get-help about_line_editing