{"id":4486,"date":"2012-12-09T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/12\/09\/powertip-finding-out-the-number-of-words-in-the-about_-conceptual-help-files\/"},"modified":"2012-12-09T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-finding-out-the-number-of-words-in-the-about_-conceptual-help-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-finding-out-the-number-of-words-in-the-about_-conceptual-help-files\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Finding Out the Number of Words in the About_ conceptual Help Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong>&nbsp;Learn how to find out the number of words in the Help About_ conceptual files.<\/p>\n<p><strong><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;<\/strong>How can I determine how many words are in the Help About_ conceptual files?<\/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;Use the&nbsp;<strong>Get-Help<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet to find all of the About_ conceptual files. Then, pipe the results to a&nbsp;<strong>Foreach-object<\/strong> cmdlet. Inside the process script block, call the&nbsp;<strong>Get-Help<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet again to retrieve the information. Pipe the results to the&nbsp;<strong>Measure-Object<\/strong> cmdlet, as shown here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">Get-Help about*&nbsp; | % { get-help $_.name } | measure -Word<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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:&nbsp;Learn how to find out the number of words in the Help About_ conceptual files. &nbsp;How can I determine how many words are in the Help About_ conceptual files? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Help&nbsp;cmdlet to find all of the About_ conceptual files. Then, pipe the results to a&nbsp;Foreach-object cmdlet. Inside the process script block, call the&nbsp;Get-Help&nbsp;cmdlet again to [&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-4486","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:&nbsp;Learn how to find out the number of words in the Help About_ conceptual files. &nbsp;How can I determine how many words are in the Help About_ conceptual files? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Help&nbsp;cmdlet to find all of the About_ conceptual files. Then, pipe the results to a&nbsp;Foreach-object cmdlet. Inside the process script block, call the&nbsp;Get-Help&nbsp;cmdlet again to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486","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=4486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/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=4486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}