{"id":4835,"date":"2012-10-12T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/10\/12\/powertip-search-help-files-in-powershell\/"},"modified":"2012-10-12T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-search-help-files-in-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-search-help-files-in-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Search Help Files in PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Use the&nbsp;<b>Category<\/b><i>&nbsp;<\/i>parameter to assist in searching Help files in Windows PowerShell.<\/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 you search the about* Help files in Windows PowerShell for a specific topic?<\/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;Specify&nbsp;<b>HelpFile<\/b><i>&nbsp;<\/i>for the&nbsp;<b>Category<\/b><i>&nbsp;<\/i>parameter, and use a wild card for the value of the&nbsp;<b>Name<\/b><i>&nbsp;<\/i>parameter. <br \/>The following example returns all the about* Help files that contain the letters &ldquo;power&rdquo; in the name.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">Get-help -Name *power* -Category helpfile<\/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\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use the&nbsp;Category&nbsp;parameter to assist in searching Help files in Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;How can you search the about* Help files in Windows PowerShell for a specific topic? &nbsp;Specify&nbsp;HelpFile&nbsp;for the&nbsp;Category&nbsp;parameter, and use a wild card for the value of the&nbsp;Name&nbsp;parameter. The following example returns all the about* Help files that contain the letters &ldquo;power&rdquo; in the [&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-4835","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 the&nbsp;Category&nbsp;parameter to assist in searching Help files in Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;How can you search the about* Help files in Windows PowerShell for a specific topic? &nbsp;Specify&nbsp;HelpFile&nbsp;for the&nbsp;Category&nbsp;parameter, and use a wild card for the value of the&nbsp;Name&nbsp;parameter. The following example returns all the about* Help files that contain the letters &ldquo;power&rdquo; in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835","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=4835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835\/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=4835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}