re: Get-Alias ?

Aleksandar — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:45:51 GMT

I've just found out that if you want to use double quotes, you have to escape it twice:

PS>Get-Alias "``?"

Is that a bug?

re: Do you know the aliases for the New-Item cmdlet?

Tobias Weltner — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:19:12 GMT

Whenever you are in doubt what a given command really "is", you can always use Get-Command! So

Get-Command mkdir

Get-Command md

will reveal they are functions. In fact, this way you can also detect whether there are "conflicting" commands. For example, when you enter

Get-Command ping

and you have installed PSCX or similar extensions, most likely PowerShell will list more than one result. Whenever there are more commands, PowerShell picks one automatically based on this order: alias, function, cmdlet, external application (I think).

BTW great article....!

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re: Get-Alias ?

re: Do you know the aliases for the New-Item cmdlet?