{"id":2390,"date":"2013-12-18T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/12\/18\/powertip-powershell-one-liner-to-find-short-aliases\/"},"modified":"2013-12-18T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-powershell-one-liner-to-find-short-aliases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-powershell-one-liner-to-find-short-aliases\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: PowerShell One-Liner to Find Short Aliases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: &nbsp;Use this Windows PowerShell one-liner to find one-, two-, three-, and four-letter aliases.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use a Windows PowerShell one-liner to find the number of default aliases that are one, two, three, <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; and four letters long?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the range operator to create an array with 1 through 4 numbers, pipe the results to the&nbsp;<br \/><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Foreach-Object&nbsp;<\/strong>cmdlet, multiply the number with a wildcard character, and pipe the results to&nbsp;<strong>Measure<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">1..4 | % {(gal (&#8220;?&#8221;*$_) | measure).count}&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: &nbsp;Use this Windows PowerShell one-liner to find one-, two-, three-, and four-letter aliases. &nbsp;How can I use a Windows PowerShell one-liner to find the number of default aliases that are one, two, three, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; and four letters long? &nbsp;Use the range operator to create an array with 1 through 4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-2390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: &nbsp;Use this Windows PowerShell one-liner to find one-, two-, three-, and four-letter aliases. &nbsp;How can I use a Windows PowerShell one-liner to find the number of default aliases that are one, two, three, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; and four letters long? &nbsp;Use the range operator to create an array with 1 through 4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}