Commands / Help and discovery

PS> Get-Help Get-ChildItem -Full

Works on

WindowsLinuxmacOS

PowerShell

5.1 and later

Reference

Microsoft Learn: Get-Help

What you'll see

NAME
    Get-ChildItem

SYNOPSIS
    Gets the items and child items in one or more specified locations.

SYNTAX
    Get-ChildItem [[-Path] <string[]>] [[-Filter] <string>] [-Include <string[]>]
    [-Exclude <string[]>] [-Recurse] [-Depth <uint>] [-Force] [-Name] ...

(If you only see a short summary, run Update-Help once as administrator.)

The manual. -Examples is the useful switch. -Full is everything. -Online opens the Microsoft page.

Run Update-Help once in an elevated session so local help is not a stub.

Try this

Get-Help Get-ChildItem -Examples

Coming from another shell

More in From bash and From cmd.

Related commands

• Get-Command Find a cmdlet by name
• Get-Alias List command aliases
• Get-History See commands you ran earlier
• Get-Module See loaded and available modules
• Get-Member See properties and methods on an object

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