{"id":7071,"date":"2007-11-08T08:47:06","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T08:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/powershell\/2007\/11\/08\/ctp-get-aliassuggestion-rewritten-to-us-ctp-functions\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:16:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:16:25","slug":"ctp-get-aliassuggestion-rewritten-to-us-ctp-functions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/ctp-get-aliassuggestion-rewritten-to-us-ctp-functions\/","title":{"rendered":"CTP: Get-AliasSuggestion Rewritten to us CTP functions"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m really enjoying the book Windows PowerShell Cookbook<\/a> by Lee Holmes. It has lots of neat scripts. I decided to grab one and re-write it to highlight some of the features in the PowerShell V2 CTP.\n<\/p>\n

Below is the content for Get-AliasSuggestion.PS1\n\t<\/p>\n

#requires -Version 2
# Name: Get-AliasSuggestion
# Author: Jeffrey Snover
# Derived From: Lee Holmes
# \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This uses the CTP features of PowerShell V2 which may change
#\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0which would cause this script to change.
cmdlet
param(
# Version 2 (CTP) supports attributes on parameters.
# These attributes cause the engine to do work for us
[Mandatory]
[Position(0)]
[Alias(“commandline”,”Cmd”,”Line”)]
$lastCommand
)
# Version 2 (CTP) supports a DATA language which can be used for
# globalizing your script
data msgs {
# Replace this with your own culture\/string
if ($UICulture -eq “en-US”)
{
@{
Suggestion = “Suggestion: An alias for [{0}] is [{1}]”
}
}else
{
@{
Suggestion = “Suggestion: An alias for [{0}] is [{1}]”
}
}
}<\/p>\n

# Version 2 (CTP) supports a tokenize API so we can take an arbitrary string and
# Tokenize it to extract the COMMAND tokens
$commands = [System.Management.Automation.PSParser]::Tokenize($lastCommand, [ref]$null) |
where {$_.Type -eq “Command”} | foreach {$_.Content}
foreach ($alias in Get-Alias)
{
# Version 2 (CTP) built in aliases now include the SNAPIN name for robustness
if ($alias.Definition.contains(“\\”))
{ $definition = @($alias.Definition -split “\\\\”)[1]
}else
{ $definition = $alias.Definition
}
if ($commands -contains $definition)
{ $msgs.Suggestion -f $definition.PadRight(15), $alias.Name.padRight(7)
}
}
\n\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you like this one, check out Lee’s book \u2013 he has tons of these.\n<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
Windows Management Partner Architect
Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell<\/a>
Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at: http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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