{"id":2589,"date":"2013-11-09T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/11\/09\/powertip-use-powershell-to-display-syntax-for-a-cmdlet\/"},"modified":"2013-11-09T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-display-syntax-for-a-cmdlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-display-syntax-for-a-cmdlet\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Display Syntax for a Cmdlet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/strong>: Use Windows PowerShell to display the syntax of a Windows PowerShell cmdlet.<\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I use Windows PowerShell to look at the syntax of a cmdlet without the distraction of a lot of additional information?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, <\/span>Use the Get-Help<\/strong> cmdlet, and choose only the Syntax<\/strong> property. 
          (The following example uses the Get-Process<\/strong> cmdlet):<\/p>\n

PS C:> (get-help get-process).syntax<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Get-Process [[-Name] <String[]>] [-ComputerName <String[]>] [-FileVersionInfo]<\/p>\n

[-Module] [<CommonParameters>]<\/p>\n

Get-Process [-ComputerName <String[]>] [-FileVersionInfo] [-Module] -InputObject<\/p>\n

<Process[]> [<CommonParameters>]<\/p>\n

Get-Process [-ComputerName <String[]>] [-FileVersionInfo] [-Module] -Id <Int32[]><\/p>\n

[<CommonParameters>]<\/p>\n

Get-Process -Id <Int32[]> -IncludeUserName [<CommonParameters>]<\/p>\n

Get-Process -IncludeUserName -InputObject <Process[]> [<CommonParameters>]<\/p>\n

Get-Process [[-Name] <String[]>] -IncludeUserName [<CommonParameters>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to display the syntax of a Windows PowerShell cmdlet.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to look at the syntax of a cmdlet without the distraction of a lot of additional information? Use the Get-Help cmdlet, and choose only the Syntax property.           (The following example uses the Get-Process cmdlet): PS C:> (get-help get-process).syntax […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[463,356,3,4,45],"class_list":["post-2589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-help","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-scripting-techniques","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to display the syntax of a Windows PowerShell cmdlet.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to look at the syntax of a cmdlet without the distraction of a lot of additional information? Use the Get-Help cmdlet, and choose only the Syntax property.           (The following example uses the Get-Process cmdlet): PS C:> (get-help get-process).syntax […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}