Someone asked me a question at work today about PowerShell… yes, I know, silly silly people but I was a bit curious as well so I opened up the PSompt (hmmm PSPrompt… Command PS… P Prompt… PS Prompt… ) err whatever… I opened the Windows application that gives me an interactive PowerShell instance and typed
help import-csv
That gave me what I needed to answer the question that was asked so I responded to the question and said don’t ask me PowerShell questions every again…
After that I noticed in the help where it said “RELATED LINKS” and it specified an online version. I thought that was quite cool, a link to the online assistance for a command right from the command line usage. That seemed very intelligent to me as it gave a location to go for quick help that could be more up to date or more fleshed out, etc. Then I thought, it would be really cool if you could ask for that help right from the command line… So without knowing if it would work or not I typed
help –online import-csv
and sure enough it popped an IE tab with the online help that was more fleshed out than the local usage.
I loved it. Great idea. I have filed that in the back of my head for future tools as well.
Anyway, I give Kudo’s where Kudo’s are due and definitely someone at MSFT who came up with that idea gets a Kudo. 🙂
joe
You said something good about powershell? What is this world coming to.
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