{"id":73671,"date":"2015-08-29T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/08\/29\/powertip-find-specific-help-articles-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:35:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:35:26","slug":"powertip-find-specific-help-articles-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-specific-help-articles-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find Specific Help Articles with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Learn how to easily find specific Help articles with Windows PowerShell.<\/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 find a Help article about automatic variables, if I am not sure of the title?<\/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 the&nbsp;<b>Get-Help<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet and begin with&nbsp;<b>about_<\/b>&nbsp;, then press Tab expansion. It will cycle through matches. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;If you think the article is&nbsp;<b>about_automatic_Variables<\/b>, you can begin with the following command:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:150px\">Help about_a&lt;tab&gt;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\">To quickly find the specific article, when the title appears, press ENTER to retrieve the article.<\/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: Learn how to easily find specific Help articles with Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find a Help article about automatic variables, if I am not sure of the title? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Help&nbsp;cmdlet and begin with&nbsp;about_&nbsp;, then press Tab expansion. It will cycle through matches. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;If you [&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":[51,463,356,3,45],"class_list":["post-73671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-getting-started","tag-help","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to easily find specific Help articles with Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find a Help article about automatic variables, if I am not sure of the title? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Help&nbsp;cmdlet and begin with&nbsp;about_&nbsp;, then press Tab expansion. It will cycle through matches. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73671","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=73671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73671\/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=73671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}