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I’m new to PowerShell and noticed that executing help and Get-Help are two distinct things, the former behaving like Get-Help | more.
My first thought was that maybe help is an alias to Get-Help but obviously it can’t be an alias if it behaves differently and indeed, it isn’t.
So what is help? Is it some built-in function? A cmdlet with non-standard naming convention? (BTW, similar question could be asked about more and possibly others.)
If you do
You’ll see it’s in fact a function
Then by doing
You’ll see ilt’s basicly a call to Get-Help | more