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$hay has a new scripting blog at http:\/\/scriptolog.blogspot.com\/<\/a> . His first blog entry Restart your engine – The PowerShell Way<\/a>, talks about how he frequently edits his PowerShell profile file and then restarts his session. In his directions he says:<\/p>\n 2: type: Notepad $profile to open your profile file<\/p>\n I looked at this and thought about my Philosophy of Automation<\/a> post and thought, if you are editing your profile a lot, you ought to automate that. I quickly typed Notepad $Profile and added the following to the end of my profile file<\/p>\n function Edit-ProfileFile{ At that point I asked myself, “hmm is ‘E’ the right alias shorthand for ‘EDIT'”. So I did the following to find out:<\/p>\n PS> gal e* So first, “E” is the right shorthand for “EDIT” but then I already had an “Edit-Profile” which was aliased to EP (not EPF). Upon investigation, these were already provided to me when installed the PowerShell Community Extensions<\/a> (PSCX). <\/p>\n So the bottom lines are:<\/p>\n 1) $hay is right, you should edit your profile file often to save the automation that you figure out. Cheers!<\/p>\n Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] $hay has a new scripting blog at http:\/\/scriptolog.blogspot.com\/ . His first blog entry Restart your engine – The PowerShell Way, talks about how he frequently edits his PowerShell profile file and then restarts his session. In his directions he says: 2: type: Notepad $profile to open your profile file I looked at this and thought about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":13641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,11],"class_list":["post-9001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powershell","tag-environment","tag-philosophy"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":" $hay has a new scripting blog at http:\/\/scriptolog.blogspot.com\/ . His first blog entry Restart your engine – The PowerShell Way, talks about how he frequently edits his PowerShell profile file and then restarts his session. In his directions he says: 2: type: Notepad $profile to open your profile file I looked at this and thought about […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Notepad $profile
}
Set-Alias epf Edit-ProfileFile<\/p>\n
CommandType Name Definition
———– —- ———-
Alias epal Export-Alias
…
Alias e Edit-File
Alias egp Edit-GlobalProfile
Alias eghp Edit-GlobalHostProfile
Alias ep Edit-Profile
Alias ehp Edit-HostProfile
Alias efun Edit-Function<\/p>\n
2) Use the Philosophy of Automation model so that you just type “ep” instead of “notepad $profile”.
3) Download and learn the PowerShell Community Extensions so that you can stand on the shoulders of giants.<\/p>\n
Windows PowerShell\/MMC 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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"