Get Help for Any Command

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Get Help for Any Command

Believe it or not, the help command does not provide help for every Command Prompt command. (How silly is that?)

However, any command can be suffixed with the /? option, usually called the help switch, to display detailed information about the command's syntax and often times even some examples.

I doubt that the help switch is the coolest Command Prompt trick you've ever heard of, but it's hard to disagree that it's one of the more useful.

Unfortunately, neither the help command nor the help switch offer much in the way of explaining how to interpret the syntax. See How to Read Command Syntax if you need help with that.