PowerTip: How Many about_ conceptual Help Files Exist?

re: PowerTip: How Many about_ conceptual Help Files Exist?

Richard.Siddaway — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:44:03 GMT

Philosophically this is an interesting question.

If you perform this on a new machine you will get an answer of one because you haven't updated help.

if you perform it post updating help the number can change depending on which modules you have explicitly loaded - for instance the ActiveDirectory module loads two or three about files

Just proves that the old IT reply of "it depends" still applies :-)

re: PowerTip: How Many about_ conceptual Help Files Exist?

JV — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:33:33 GMT

I was surprised to see that Win8 only gives a count of '1'. I would have though it would come with more that tahe as a starter.

re: PowerTip: How Many about_ conceptual Help Files Exist?

Ed Wilson — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 21:59:04 GMT

@JV yep, the count property exists on most objects --- and it makes it easy to find out the number of items in a collection ...

re: PowerTip: How Many about_ conceptual Help Files Exist?

JV — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 21:52:04 GMT

#Windows XP PowerShell V2

PS>(help about*).Count

#Windows 7 PowerShell V3

PS>(help about*).Count

101

#Windows 8 PowerSHell V3

PS>(help about*).Count

# WHAT? @(#&^%**&^!&^!%^!!

# some furious typoing thake palce and ....'

PS>(help about*).Count

110

# Grin! ;)