{"id":4358,"date":"2013-01-07T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/01\/07\/powertip-find-parameter-specific-help-information\/"},"modified":"2013-01-07T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-parameter-specific-help-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-parameter-specific-help-information\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find Parameter-Specific Help Information"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary:<\/strong>  In Windows PowerShell 3.0, see how to find detailed Help information for a specific Windows PowerShell parameter.<\/p>\n

\"Hey, How do I find detailed Help information for a specific parameter of a Windows PowerShell cmdlet?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Use the –Parameter<\/strong> parameter and specify the parameter name. An example of this is shown here.<\/p>\n

17:11 C:\\> help New-Partition -Parameter size<\/p>\n

 -Size <UInt64><\/p>\n

    Specifies the size of the partition to create.  If not specified, then the units<\/p>\n

    will default to bytes. The acceptable value for this parameter is a positive<\/p>\n

    number followed by the one of the following unit values: Bytes, KB, MB, GB, or<\/p>\n

    TB.<\/p>\n

     Required?                    false<\/p>\n

    Position?                    named<\/p>\n

    Default value<\/p>\n

    Accept pipeline input?       false<\/p>\n

    Accept wildcard characters?  false<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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