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Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shares an excerpt from his book, Windows PowerShell Best Practices that discusses scripting pitfalls. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I have an excerpt from my new book, PowerShell Best Practices, which is published by Microsoft Press. In the excerpt today, I talk about avoiding Window...

Summary: Find all two letter aliases.  How can I see all defined two-letter Windows PowerShell aliases?  Use the Get-Alias cmdlet and a wildcard character combination: Get-Alias ??

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about finding all two-letter alias combinations by using Windows PowerShell. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I have an excerpt from my new book, PowerShell Best Practices, which is published by Microsoft Press. The two-letter alias namespace is rather large, but how large is it ...

Summary: Find aliases for your favorite Windows PowerShell commands.  How can I find shortcut names for the long command names I am always typing when I work from the Windows PowerShell console?  Use the Get-Alias cmdlet and specify the name of the long command you want to shorten           in the &...

Summary:  Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, provides an excerpt from his new book, Windows PowerShell Best Practices, about searching for strings. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I have an excerpt from my new book, PowerShell Best Practices , which is published by Microsoft Press. When you are searching for a string, you ...