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Using Get-Help

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Using Get-Help

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- [Instructor] Now we just looked at using the get command to be able to identify the commandlets, et cetera. Now, one other commandlet that's available to us is the get-help that allows us to identify information about a process. Now the first thing that we need to do is update the help. So I'm going to say run selection. It's going to go ahead and update the help information to give me the most up-to-date information help files that have been loaded back into PowerShell. So this might take a few minutes. It could be nice and quick. You can see it's downloading the help content. It's going to streamline all of that and bring it down. You can see, it's changing the modules that we've loaded and bringing that help information. So the more modules you have, the longer it's going to take to actually load all that information directly into that. Now of course once that's finished loading, then of course we can use the get - help against a specific command. So while that's loading, we can…

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