Alias

Set an Alias

New-Alias <alias> <cmd_name>

NOTE

New-Alias throws when the alias already exist while Set-Alias will overrides it.

Override an Alias

Set-Alias <alias> <cmd_name>

Checkout Alias

• Check out by alias

Get-Alias <alias>

Or use Get-Command

Get-Command <alias>

• Check out by command name

Get-Alias -Definition <cmd_name>

Builtin Aliases

Powershell ships with some builtin aliases, checkout by this command:

Get-Alias | Where-Object { $_.Options -match 'ReadOnly|Constant' }

NOTE

Do not use custom aliases for public repository.

Differ from Bash

Alias in powershell is only a name alias for a command, it can never take any predetermined parameters or flags like in bash.

alias gl='git log' # fine

New-Alias gl 'git log' # not allowed!