{"id":4861,"date":"2012-10-06T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/10\/06\/powertip-easily-search-powershell-about-files\/"},"modified":"2012-10-06T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-easily-search-powershell-about-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-easily-search-powershell-about-files\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Easily Search PowerShell About Files"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Learn how to use a switch to cause Get-Help<\/b> to search _About files.<\/p>\n

\"Hey,How can you easily search the Windows PowerShell _About<\/b> files for topics that are related to a string?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Use the Category<\/b> <\/i>parameter and look for HelpFiles<\/b>:<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> get-help parameter -Category helpfile<\/p>\n

Name        Category Module     Synopsis<\/p>\n

—-        ——– ——     ——–<\/p>\n

about_CommonParameters   HelpFile       Describes t…<\/p>\n

about_Functions_Advanced_Param… HelpFile       Explains ho…<\/p>\n

about_Parameters     HelpFile       SHORT DESCR…<\/p>\n

about_Parameters_Default_Values HelpFile       SHORT DESCR…<\/p>\n

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

Summary: Learn how to use a switch to cause Get-Help to search _About files. How can you easily search the Windows PowerShell _About files for topics that are related to a string?  Use the Category parameter and look for HelpFiles: PS C:\\> get-help parameter -Category helpfile Name        Category Module     Synopsis —-        ——– ——     ——– about_CommonParameters   HelpFile       Describes t… about_Functions_Advanced_Param… HelpFile       Explains ho… […]<\/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-4861","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":"

Summary: Learn how to use a switch to cause Get-Help to search _About files. How can you easily search the Windows PowerShell _About files for topics that are related to a string?  Use the Category parameter and look for HelpFiles: PS C:\\> get-help parameter -Category helpfile Name        Category Module     Synopsis —-        ——– ——     ——– about_CommonParameters   HelpFile       Describes t… about_Functions_Advanced_Param… HelpFile       Explains ho… […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861","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=4861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861\/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=4861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}