CmdID

CmdID / Commands

help

Displays a list of the available commands or detailed help information on a specified command. Windows commands reference

On Windows, Linux File help.exe

Opens CmdID with your command. It is read in your browser and sent nowhere.

Windows

from the Windows commands reference, CC BY 4.0

Displays a list of the available commands or detailed help information on a specified command. If used without parameters, help lists and briefly describes every system command.

help [<command>]
help robocopy
help
help create partition primary
<command>Specifies the command for which to display detailed help information.

Linux

from the toybox, 0BSD

Show usage information for toybox commands. Run "toybox" with no arguments for a list of available commands.

help [-ahu] [COMMAND]
-aAll commands
-uUsage only
-hHTML output

Several platforms

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Display information about Bash builtin commands.

Display the full list of builtin commands

Print instructions on how to use the while loop construct

help whileIdentify

Print instructions on how to use the for loop construct

help forIdentify

Print instructions on how to use [[ ]] for conditional commands

help [[Identify

Print instruction on how to use (( )) to evaluate arithmetic expressions

help \(Identify

Print instructions on how to use the cd command

help cdIdentify

Windows

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Get help on DOS-style standard commands in Command Prompt. In PowerShell, this command is an alias of Get-Help. This documentation is based on the Command Prompt (cmd) version of help.

View a list of supported Command Prompt commands

View help for a given Command Prompt command

help commandIdentify