{"id":7801,"date":"2015-02-16T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/02\/16\/powertip-find-powershell-help-for-specific-parameter\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:30:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:30:36","slug":"powertip-find-powershell-help-for-specific-parameter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-powershell-help-for-specific-parameter\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find PowerShell Help for Specific Parameter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell Help to assist with a specific parameter.<\/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;I know I can use&nbsp;<b>Get-Help &ndash;full<\/b>&nbsp;to see the complete Help for a Windows PowerShell cmdlet, but how can I <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;see the Help for only &nbsp;a specific parameter?<\/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, specify the cmdlet name, and then specify the specific parameter, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">get-help Start-Process -Parameter wait<\/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: Use Windows PowerShell Help to assist with a specific parameter. &nbsp;I know I can use&nbsp;Get-Help &ndash;full&nbsp;to see the complete Help for a Windows PowerShell cmdlet, but how can I &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;see the Help for only &nbsp;a specific parameter? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Help&nbsp;cmdlet, specify the cmdlet name, and then specify the specific parameter, [&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-7801","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 Windows PowerShell Help to assist with a specific parameter. &nbsp;I know I can use&nbsp;Get-Help &ndash;full&nbsp;to see the complete Help for a Windows PowerShell cmdlet, but how can I &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;see the Help for only &nbsp;a specific parameter? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Help&nbsp;cmdlet, specify the cmdlet name, and then specify the specific parameter, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801","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=7801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801\/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=7801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}