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dblohm7 on Sept 11, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Git Bash is my preferred Windows shell

AIUI the verbosity is by design to make scripts more clear, and users are expected to use aliases to make cmdlets easier to work with interactively. But I assume that few of those aliases are actually standardized...

Jochim on Sept 14, 2024 [–]

Virtually all of the built in commandlets have one or more aliases set by default.

e.g. Get-ChildItem is aliased to "gci", "ls", and probably "dir" as well.

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