{"id":72791,"date":"2015-10-12T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/10\/12\/powertip-display-every-powershell-example-in-help\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:34:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:34:55","slug":"powertip-display-every-powershell-example-in-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-display-every-powershell-example-in-help\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Display Every PowerShell Example in Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Display every Windows PowerShell example that Help contains.<\/span><\/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 I use Windows PowerShell to display every Help example that Windows PowerShell contains?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><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&nbsp;<b>Get-Command<\/b>&nbsp;to retrieve all of the cmdlet names, pipe the output to&nbsp;<b>Foreach-Object<\/b>, <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;and call&nbsp;<b>Get-Help<\/b>&nbsp;with the&nbsp;<b>&ndash;Example<\/b>&nbsp;switch, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">gcm | % {get-help $_.name -ex}<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\"><b>Note<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>GCM<\/b>&nbsp;is an alias for&nbsp;<b>Get-Command<\/b>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<b>%<\/b>&nbsp;is an alias for&nbsp;<b>Foreach-Object<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Display every Windows PowerShell example that Help contains. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to display every Help example that Windows PowerShell contains? &nbsp;Use&nbsp;Get-Command&nbsp;to retrieve all of the cmdlet names, pipe the output to&nbsp;Foreach-Object, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;and call&nbsp;Get-Help&nbsp;with the&nbsp;&ndash;Example&nbsp;switch, for example: gcm | % {get-help $_.name -ex} Note&nbsp;&nbsp;GCM&nbsp;is an alias for&nbsp;Get-Command&nbsp;and&nbsp;%&nbsp;is [&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-72791","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: Display every Windows PowerShell example that Help contains. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to display every Help example that Windows PowerShell contains? &nbsp;Use&nbsp;Get-Command&nbsp;to retrieve all of the cmdlet names, pipe the output to&nbsp;Foreach-Object, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;and call&nbsp;Get-Help&nbsp;with the&nbsp;&ndash;Example&nbsp;switch, for example: gcm | % {get-help $_.name -ex} Note&nbsp;&nbsp;GCM&nbsp;is an alias for&nbsp;Get-Command&nbsp;and&nbsp;%&nbsp;is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72791","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=72791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72791\/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=72791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}