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It is inconvenient to leave your Terminal to read Help online. We would prefer to have all of the Help available locally. PowerShell can potentially work on low-memory devices such as Raspberry, but saving all of the Help in the limited space we have is not advisable. This is one of the reasons PowerShell comes with minimal Help by default. The reason updating Help requires elevated privileges is that the Help information is stored within the shell. Therefore, non-administrators may not be able to update Help without administrator intervention.
As a general practice, cmdlets come pre-packaged with Help information, and Get-Help works like the man command in Linux. The output of Get-Help has the name of the cmdlet, the syntax ...
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