{"id":3263,"date":"2013-07-09T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/07\/09\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-aliases-exported-by-all-modules\/"},"modified":"2013-07-09T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-find-aliases-exported-by-all-modules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-aliases-exported-by-all-modules\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Find Aliases Exported by All Modules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">Summary<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to find all the aliases that are exported by all modules.<\/span><\/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 find all of the aliases that are exported by all Windows PowerShell modules?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><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;Import all modules, use the&nbsp;<strong>Get-Module<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet to list all modules, use&nbsp;<strong>Get-Module<\/strong>&nbsp;to get the module, and then select the name of the module and the&nbsp;<strong>ExportedAliases<\/strong>&nbsp;property:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">Get-Module -l | Import-Module<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">Get-Module -l | Get-Module | Where-Object {$_.ExportedAliases.count -gt 0} |<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">Select-Object name, ExportedAliases | Format-Table -AutoSize -Wrap<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\"><strong>Note<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;The output may contain truncated data. This is controlled by the&nbsp;<strong>$FormatEnumerationLimit<\/strong>&nbsp;preference variable. For more information about this, see the Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/heyscriptingguy\/archive\/2011\/11\/20\/change-a-powershell-preference-variable-to-reveal-hidden-data.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Change a PowerShell Preference Variable to Reveal Hidden Data<\/a>.<\/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: Use Windows PowerShell to find all the aliases that are exported by all modules. &nbsp;How can I find all of the aliases that are exported by all Windows PowerShell modules? &nbsp;Import all modules, use the&nbsp;Get-Module&nbsp;cmdlet to list all modules, use&nbsp;Get-Module&nbsp;to get the module, and then select the name of the module and the&nbsp;ExportedAliases&nbsp;property: Get-Module [&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-3263","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: Use Windows PowerShell to find all the aliases that are exported by all modules. &nbsp;How can I find all of the aliases that are exported by all Windows PowerShell modules? &nbsp;Import all modules, use the&nbsp;Get-Module&nbsp;cmdlet to list all modules, use&nbsp;Get-Module&nbsp;to get the module, and then select the name of the module and the&nbsp;ExportedAliases&nbsp;property: Get-Module [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263","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=3263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/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=3263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}