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Nothing is speedier, easier, or more interactive than Get-Help in Powershell. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/ge
by nojito 5y ago
Nothing is speedier, easier, or more interactive than Get-Help in Powershell.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/get-help?view=powershell-7.2 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...
Using other shells is like living in the stone age. I don't know why people would do that to themselves.
- pxc 5y agoGet-Help is pretty good, but I don't like several things about it: 1. You have to go out of your way to fetch the full help pages on a given PowerShell installation (they're not stored locally by default). 2. Even after you fetch the full help, not all of it is actually included in the Get-Help output (IIRC examples), so you often need to use `Get-Help -Online`, which opens a separate application (browser) and that sucks 3. Inside the terminal, there's little to no special formatting or syntax highlighting, unlike what you get with a good `man` pager 4. Get-Help output (unlike `man` output as configured on most distros) is not paged by default. `man` could be better, and I don't really vibe with `info`, but Get-Help isn't that great imo. The actual content of the help is quite good, and it's nice that it includes examples, but the same is true of most man pages.
- tourist2d 5y agoA one liner in bash is an essay in powershell
- nojito 5y agosure if your TAB key is broken.
- laumars 5y agoLoads of shells have an equivalent to Get-Help