Getting acquainted with Windows Powershell environment

The best way to get the help about it is,

get-command. What's that. The Get-Command cmdlet gets basic information about cmdlets and other elements of Windows PowerShell commands, such as files, functions, and Windows PowerShell providers.

get-help get-command -detailed

Where get-command is the cmdlet for which you wish to get the help.

and -detailed parameter indicates that we wish to get details regarding parameters and methods.

Optionally, -Full means complete help info. that's available

and -examples means to see only examples

and get-help get-command -parameter servicename would give you complete information about the parameter named 'servicename' that's part of the get-command returned object.

To display the help of all topics available, you can

get-help get-* and get-help about*

If you need help with any cmdlet that gets listed,

get-help <cmdlet-name or get-alias> -detailed

That's the best help to start with. It gives you list of all get commands and nouns for that matter as you may have observed the verb-noun pattern of powershell.

get-alias

to know the short names or aliases for many cmdlets in your powershell session.

Here are the few common verbs other than get.

More...for the next post!

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