{"id":121,"date":"2014-12-27T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/12\/27\/powertip-explore-powershell-help\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:36:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:36:19","slug":"powertip-explore-powershell-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-explore-powershell-help\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Explore PowerShell Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use&nbsp;<\/span><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Out-GridView<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">&nbsp;to easily explore Windows PowerShell Help.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I easily explore Windows PowerShell cmdlets and then see the cmdlet Help from them?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Get-Command<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet, pipe the output to&nbsp;<b>Out-GridView<\/b>&nbsp;with the&nbsp;<b>-Wait<\/b><i>&nbsp;<\/i>parameter, <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;and then pipe the results to&nbsp;<b>Get-Help<\/b>&nbsp;with the&nbsp;<b>&ndash;Full<\/b><i>&nbsp;<\/i>parameter. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;This example finds all cmdlets that begin with the verb&nbsp;<b>Set<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Get-Command -Verb set | Out-GridView -PassThru | get-help -Full<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\"><b>Note&nbsp;<\/b>&nbsp;For this to work, you must open Windows PowerShell with administrator rights, and run the&nbsp;<b>Update-Help<\/b>&nbsp;<br \/>command at least once to ensure that you have updated Help content on your computer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use&nbsp;Out-GridView&nbsp;to easily explore Windows PowerShell Help. &nbsp;How can I easily explore Windows PowerShell cmdlets and then see the cmdlet Help from them? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Command&nbsp;cmdlet, pipe the output to&nbsp;Out-GridView&nbsp;with the&nbsp;-Wait&nbsp;parameter, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;and then pipe the results to&nbsp;Get-Help&nbsp;with the&nbsp;&ndash;Full&nbsp;parameter. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;This example finds all cmdlets that begin with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use&nbsp;Out-GridView&nbsp;to easily explore Windows PowerShell Help. &nbsp;How can I easily explore Windows PowerShell cmdlets and then see the cmdlet Help from them? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Command&nbsp;cmdlet, pipe the output to&nbsp;Out-GridView&nbsp;with the&nbsp;-Wait&nbsp;parameter, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;and then pipe the results to&nbsp;Get-Help&nbsp;with the&nbsp;&ndash;Full&nbsp;parameter. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;This example finds all cmdlets that begin with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}