PowerShell: Builtin Help

help name

Show the doc or full name of a thing name.

help name -online

Show help in a browser.

help help

Show how to use help, and topics.

help about*

List all help topics starting with “about”, useful for looking up syntax and data structure.

Help Screen Keys

These are the basic keys.

• Space → show next screen.
• h → show key help.
• q → quit.

On Windows, to see previous page: exit help, then PageUp. On Linux/MacOS, press b.