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Discovering commands

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Discovering commands

- With an updated help system, I'm ready to use the help system to find out what I can do with Powershell. There's three different commands though to use it. Now first of all, we have a "verb-noun", a commandlet that will let you use the help system. Just kind of let your eyes glaze for a second and watch what happens to my screen. Notice everything just scrolled right by on my screen. Let me show you a different command. So I'm gonna clear the screen. Besides "get-help", we also have, and this was actually the old DOS command called "help". This does the same thing as "get-help", but watch the screen. See how at the bottom it says "--More--"? And I have to hit my spacebar to get it to scroll through. It's not scrolling through, it's paging through. So, the difference is, you can use "get-help". That scrolls through the entire help system. Or you can use "help", and that pages through it. Whichever one you use is whatever your preference is. What I like to do though, is I like to make…

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