Hi,

my get-help cmdlet has stopped scrolling a page at a time. It just dumps all
the content to the screen in one go. Anyone have any ideas on how to get it
to go back to scrolling one page at a time? I tried un-installing and
re-installing powershell but the behaviour remained the same.

Cheers,

Adam.

I should have looked a little harder.

In the help for get-help it states

"Get-help" and "-?" display help on one page.
"Help" displays help on multiple pages.

Cheers,

Adam.


"Adam Murray" <muzzar78@msn.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> my get-help cmdlet has stopped scrolling a page at a time. It just dumps
> all the content to the screen in one go. Anyone have any ideas on how to
> get it to go back to scrolling one page at a time? I tried un-installing
> and re-installing powershell but the behaviour remained the same.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Adam.
>

If you have a look at the all-user powershell profile, you'll see that "help"
is just a automatically defined function:

function help
{
get-help $args[0] | out-host -paging
}

Everytime a cmdlet prints out too much text, you can pipe it to "out-host
-paging".
You can also pipe to the function "more", which has the same effect and is
easier to type.

--
greetings
dreeschkind

"Adam Murray" wrote:

> I should have looked a little harder.
>
> In the help for get-help it states
>
> "Get-help" and "-?" display help on one page.
> "Help" displays help on multiple pages.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Adam.
>
>
> "Adam Murray" <muzzar78@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:%23ElHZxt2GHA.480@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> > Hi,
> >
> > my get-help cmdlet has stopped scrolling a page at a time. It just dumps
> > all the content to the screen in one go. Anyone have any ideas on how to
> > get it to go back to scrolling one page at a time? I tried un-installing
> > and re-installing powershell but the behaviour remained the same.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Adam.
> >
>
>
>