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Help: Finding a Command: Get-Command, Reading Help: Get-Help.

Updated November 10, 2026

1. Finding a Command: Get-Command (Apprentice): Get-Command searches every command PowerShell knows, by its exact name, by its verb or noun, or by part of a name with the * wildcard, and shows what kind of command each one is and which module it comes from, without running it.
2. Reading Help: Get-Help (Apprentice): Get-Help shows a command's help page once Update-Help has downloaded it, and its examples, its syntax lines and the about_ topics let you work out a command you've never seen before you run it.