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Borek Bernard
Borek Bernard

Reputation: 53251

In PowerShell, what is technically the "help" command?

I'm new to PowerShell and noticed that executing help and Get-Help are two distinct things, the former behaving like Get-Help | more.

My first thought was that maybe help is an alias to Get-Help but obviously it can't be an alias if it behaves differently and indeed, it isn't.

So what is help? Is it some built-in function? A cmdlet with non-standard naming convention? (BTW, similar question could be asked about more and possibly others.)

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1850

Answers (2)

Shay Levy
Shay Levy

Reputation: 126742

I wrote a post on the difference between the two long time ago:

http://scriptolog.blogspot.com/2007/11/help-vs-get-help.html

Upvotes: 4

Cédric Rup
Cédric Rup

Reputation: 15928

If you do

Get-command help

You'll see it's in fact a function

Then by doing

get-content function:\help

You'll see ilt's basicly a call to Get-Help | more

Upvotes: 6

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