Alias for any program

Bush — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 06:00:00 GMT

I want to create alias for some programs. It is fulfilled successfully:


Set-Alias edit "C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe"

Now the command 'edit' was run . I am doing the export alias 'notepad++.exe' in it PowerShell session. I want export my aliaces:


Export-Alias -Path "$Home\Documents\MyAliases.txt"

It happens successfully.

Now I restart PowerShell, and do import my settings:


Import-Alias -Path "C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" -Force

But I get error message:

[quote]

PS C:\Users\user> Import-Alias -Path "C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" -Force

Import-Alias : Cannot import an alias because line number 1 in the file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe

' is not a properly formatted CSV line for aliases. Change the line so that it contains four values separated by commas

. If the value contains a comma, then the value must be quoted.

At line:1 char:13

+ Import-Alias <<<< -Path "C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" -Force

+ CategoryInfo : ReadError: (C:\Program File...+\notepad++.exe:String) [Import-Alias], FormatException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ImportAliasFileFormatError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.ImportAliasCommand

PS C:\Users\user>

[/quote]

In exported file it row such:

"edit","C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe","","None"

I tried to add inverted commas, but it hasn't helped.

Variant 1:

"edit","'C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe'","","None"

Variant 2:

"edit",'"C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe"',"","None"

Aliases

RedaDZ — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Hi all

I have got a question regarding aliases: I have seen in some examples where people use alieas to cmdlets like the following example:

PS (1) > get-date

PS (2) > get-process

My question is what's the number between paretheses means? Can you explain me please?

Thanks in advance

Regards