{"id":3086,"date":"2013-08-07T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/08\/07\/powertip-use-powershell-to-display-help-for-module-cmdlets\/"},"modified":"2013-08-07T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-display-help-for-module-cmdlets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-display-help-for-module-cmdlets\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Display Help for Module Cmdlets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">Summary<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to display all Help for all cmdlets in a module.<\/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 see all of the Help examples for cmdlets from a specific module?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><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;After you have updated your Help in Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0, use the&nbsp;<strong>Get-Command<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet to retrieve all cmdlets from a specific module, pipe the results to the&nbsp;<strong>Foreach-Object<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet, and use the&nbsp;<strong>Get-Help<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet inside the script block. Following is an example for the&nbsp;<strong>PrintManagement<\/strong>&nbsp;module:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">Get-Command -Module PrintManagement| Foreach-Object {get-help $_.name -Examples}<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">Here is a shorter version of the same command:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">gcm -mo *print* | % {get-help $_.name -ex}<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to display all Help for all cmdlets in a module. &nbsp;How can I see all of the Help examples for cmdlets from a specific module? &nbsp;After you have updated your Help in Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0, use the&nbsp;Get-Command&nbsp;cmdlet to retrieve all cmdlets from a specific module, pipe the results to the&nbsp;Foreach-Object&nbsp;cmdlet, and use [&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-3086","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 Windows PowerShell to display all Help for all cmdlets in a module. &nbsp;How can I see all of the Help examples for cmdlets from a specific module? &nbsp;After you have updated your Help in Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0, use the&nbsp;Get-Command&nbsp;cmdlet to retrieve all cmdlets from a specific module, pipe the results to the&nbsp;Foreach-Object&nbsp;cmdlet, and use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086","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=3086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/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=3086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}