During a recent PowerShell training class we naturally covered aliases. An alias is simply an alternate name, often something that is shorter to type, or maybe even more meaningful. There are aliases for commands, properties and parameters. Discovering aliases for commands is pretty easy with Get-Alias. Property aliases are discoverable using Get-Member. But, discovering parameter…
Tag: Get-Help
Create an HTML PowerShell Help Page
Yesterday I posted an article about getting the online url for a cmdlet help topic. Today I want to demonstrate how we might take advantage of this piece of information. Since the link is already in the form of a URL, wouldn’t it make sense to put this in an HTML document? At first glance,…
Get Cmdlet Help URL
I was toying around with PowerShell help this morning and as usually happens one thing leads to another. When you run Get-Help, or use the wrapper function Help, you are actually getting an object: MamlCommandHelpInfo. This object has properties that you are use to seeing like name and synopsis. PS C:\> get-help get-service | Select…