{"id":4489,"date":"2012-12-08T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/12\/08\/powertip-how-many-about_-conceptual-help-files-exist\/"},"modified":"2012-12-08T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-how-many-about_-conceptual-help-files-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-how-many-about_-conceptual-help-files-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: How Many about_ conceptual Help Files Exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong>&nbsp;Find out how many about_ conceptual Help files exist on a Windows&nbsp;8 Windows PowerShell installation.<\/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 get a listing of all the about_ conceptual Help files on my computer running Windows&nbsp;8?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\"><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 and search for about*, as shown here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">Get-Help about*<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">To find out how many articles this is, pipe the results to the&nbsp;<strong>Measure-Object<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet, as shown here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">Get-Help about* | Measure-Object<\/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;Find out how many about_ conceptual Help files exist on a Windows&nbsp;8 Windows PowerShell installation. &nbsp;How can I get a listing of all the about_ conceptual Help files on my computer running Windows&nbsp;8? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Help&nbsp;cmdlet and search for about*, as shown here. Get-Help about* To find out how many articles this is, pipe the results [&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-4489","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;Find out how many about_ conceptual Help files exist on a Windows&nbsp;8 Windows PowerShell installation. &nbsp;How can I get a listing of all the about_ conceptual Help files on my computer running Windows&nbsp;8? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Help&nbsp;cmdlet and search for about*, as shown here. Get-Help about* To find out how many articles this is, pipe the results [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489","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=4489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/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=4489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}