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> One thing that I still dislike is the absence of something like the Unix manual pages. For some reason, help pages require additional installation, and the le
by WorldMaker 4y ago
> One thing that I still dislike is the absence of something like the Unix manual pages. For some reason, help pages require additional installation, and the learn.microsoft.com search is so awful that it's often quicker to use DDG with "site:learn.microsoft.com".
I haven't found a case where `Get-Help` hasn't met most of my need for something like Unix `man`. `Get-Help` is even by default "helpfully" aliased to `man` in PowerShell.
It is weird that sometimes you need to `Update-Help` somewhat frequently, especially if you install a lot of modules regularly, but some tools have gotten better at calling it automatically after module installs and I believe the PowerShell 7+ installers have gotten better than before about making sure the built-in modules are all up-to-date at install time and not just uninstalled/missing. It's also not that weird when you look at how complicated man page installation is in most distributions of Unix (even if it feels magic when it works).
Also, the `-Online` argument to `Get-Help` sends your default browser to the relevant learn.microsoft.com documentation page for most commands. That's a very handy shortcut to searching in my experience.