The help function includes the -ShowWindow parameter on non-Windows platforms #19904
Description
Prerequisites
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Steps to reproduce
help is a proxy function for Get-Help that is loaded into the initial session state when PowerShell starts. As a proxy function, it defines all the parameters that Get-Help has. The definition of the proxy function was created for Windows PowerShell but never adjusted for non-Windows.
See source code -
PowerShell/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/InitialSessionState.cs
Lines 4185 to 4187 in 7363096
The proxy function includes the -ShowWindow parameter for all platforms.
Expected behavior
PS /home/sdwheeler> help Get-Command -ShowWindow
help: A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'ShowWindow'.Actual behavior
PS /home/sdwheeler> help Get-Command -ShowWindow
Get-Help:
Line |
64 | $help = Get-Help @PSBoundParameters
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'ShowWindow'.Error details
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Environment data
PS /home/sdwheeler> $PSVersionTable
Name Value
---- -----
PSVersion 7.3.5
PSEdition Core
GitCommitId 7.3.5
OS Linux 5.15.90.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 #1 SMP Fri Jan 27 02:56:13 UTC 2023
Platform Unix
PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.3
SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion 3.0
PS /home/sdwheeler> lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focalVisuals
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