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Explore help - PowerShell Tutorial
From the course: PowerShell 7 Essential Training
Explore help
- [Instructor] When working with PowerShell, one of the things that you need to understand is how the functions and commands actually work. And the nice thing is that in Powershell, we actually have a function called Get-Help. Now of course, I've just scrolled. It just gives me some basic information. But notice the structure here. So what it does if I keep scrolling, it gives me some explanation about the commands. So I chose Get-Help. And then a long description, some online help. Where to get updated information from. And then if we scroll right towards the bottom here, we get some examples of how to utilize that specific function. So let's just clear that for a second. So let's say I wanted to utilize the Format-Table command which allows us to format results in the table format. I could simply type Get-Help, and do Format-Table. Now what it does for each of the properties or commands that we check, it will…
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