As our PowerShell adventures continue, Matt is talking about aliases. He mentions that the ls command of Unix is aliased in PowerShell. But one of the Unix commands that isn’t aliased is alias. Really… they left the obvious alias out of the...
This past Tuesday, I was privileged to speak at the Cleveland C#/VB.NET SIG on extending PowerShell. Since I knew that my audience wasn’t necessarily familiar with PowerShell (except a few), I spent the first half of the session introducing PowerShell...
< # .SYNOPSIS This script creates a function to set aliases for all Cmdlets which omit the '-' .DESCRIPTION This script defines a function which uses Get-Command to find all cmdlets. F or each of them, it then...
PowerShell does aim to be downwards compatible to the classic shell cmd.exe but compatibility is poor. Today, I'd like to look at some of the issues that prevent classic console commands from running correctly within PowerShell and ways to work around it. Launching Files and Programs Many users wonder...