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Exploring help options - PowerShell Tutorial
From the course: PowerShell 5 Essential Training
Exploring help options
- I wanna show you how to control and start to read the help files from the commandlets. But I wanna ask you do to me a favor. I don't want you do write this down. Now, hopefully, you're in front of your computer and you're able to try this out too. But you might be at the gym. I don't want you to have the fear that you have to memorize this. In fact, one of the most important aspects to learning PowerShell is, don't memorize anything. I've already demonstrated how to discover the kinds of commandlets. We'll be doing this throughout the entire course. So discover what you want. That way you don't have to memorize. Then you can go in and take a look at the help for the commandlets. I wanna show you the different levels of help that you can receive. Let's play with Get-Process and maybe Get-Service. Those are pretty straightforward commandlets. Get-Process, let me just show you what it does. It'll give me a list of the current running processes on this system. Pretty straightforward…
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