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Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting - Second Edition
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Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting - Second Edition

by Chris Dent, Brenton J.W. Blawat
October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
440 pages
11h 47m
English
Packt Publishing
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About help files

About documents describe features of a language or concepts that apply to more than one command. These items do not fit in help for individual commands.

The list of help files may be viewed by running Get-Help with the category as HelpFile, as demonstrated in the following code:

PS> Get-Help -Category HelpFile

These files cover a huge variety of topics from aliases to modules to WMI:

Name                                  Category Synopsis ----                                  -------- -------- about_Aliases HelpFile                SHORT   DESCRIPTION about_Arithmetic_Operators HelpFile   SHORT   DESCRIPTION about_Arrays HelpFile                 SHORT   DESCRIPTION about_Assignment_Operators HelpFile   SHORT   DESCRIPTION about_Automatic_Variables HelpFile    SHORT   DESCRIPTION about_Break HelpFile                  SHORT   DESCRIPTION about_Classes HelpFile ...
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ISBN: 9781787126305