Powershell: Get-Help About

Created on 17 Mar 2019  路  3Comments  路  Source: PowerShell/PowerShell

Steps to reproduce

1 type Get-Help About
2 type e.g Get-Help about_Variables

Expected behavior

 1 you get all about_ Help-topics
 2 you should get the Help to variables in Powershell-core.6



Actual behavior

```Name Category Module Synopsis
---- -------- ------ --------

  1. about_PSReadLine HelpFile
    about_posh-git HelpFile posh-git integrates Git and PowerShell providing tab completion of Git
    about_BeforeEach_AfterEach HelpFile Describes the BeforeEach and AfterEach commands, which run a set of commands that you specify
    about_Mocking HelpFile Pester provides a set of Mocking functions making it easy to fake dependencies
    about_Pester HelpFile Pester is a test framework for Windows PowerShell. Use the Pester language
    about_Should HelpFile Provides assertion convenience methods for comparing objects and throwing
    about_TestDrive HelpFile A PSDrive for file activity limited to the scope of a singe Describe or

2.
get-help : Get-Help could not find about_Variables in a help file in this session. To download updated help topics type: "Update-Help". To get help online, search for the help topic in the TechNet library at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=107116.
At line:1 char:1

  • get-help about_Variables
  • ~~~~~~~~
  • CategoryInfo : ResourceUnavailable: (:) [Get-Help], HelpNotFoundException
  • FullyQualifiedErrorId : HelpNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetHelpCommand

# Environment data

<!-- provide the output of $PSVersionTable -->

```Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      6.2.0-rc.1
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    6.2.0-rc.1
OS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.17763
Platform                       Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0鈥
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

Issue-Question Resolution-Answered

Most helpful comment

now I solved the problem. I Used update-help -UiCulture en-US and now all new helpfiles are installed
I'm living in Germany with german Windows so my UiCulture are de-De.. and there are these help-topics not available.

All 3 comments

Cannot reproduce this in 6.2.0-rc.1 - Microsoft Windows 10.0.18358 . Try an Update-Help

I did execute Update-Help both as Administrator and User and nothing happened. always the same output of get-help about

now I solved the problem. I Used update-help -UiCulture en-US and now all new helpfiles are installed
I'm living in Germany with german Windows so my UiCulture are de-De.. and there are these help-topics not available.

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