{"id":3282,"date":"2013-07-03T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/07\/03\/powertip-import-only-aliases-and-functions-from-a-powershell-module\/"},"modified":"2013-07-03T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-import-only-aliases-and-functions-from-a-powershell-module","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-import-only-aliases-and-functions-from-a-powershell-module\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Import Only Aliases and Functions from a PowerShell Module"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/strong>: Use parameters of <\/span>Import-Module<\/strong> to control what you import from a Windows PowerShell module.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I import only custom aliases and functions from a Windows PowerShell module?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, 1. Use the –Function <\/strong>and –Alias<\/strong> parameters, and use wildcard characters to control the import (ipmo<\/strong> is an alias for Import-Alias<\/strong>):<\/p>\n

ipmo pscx -Function * -Alias *<\/p>\n

  2. Use the Get-Command<\/strong> cmdlet to verify the import (gcm<\/strong> is an alias for Get-Command<\/strong> and –mo<\/strong> is short for –Module<\/strong>):<\/p>\n

gcm -mo pscx<\/p>\n

  Note<\/strong>   For more information about the PSCX module, see Install the PSCX and 80 New Cmdlets to Ease PowerShell Use<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Use parameters of Import-Module to control what you import from a Windows PowerShell module.  How can I import only custom aliases and functions from a Windows PowerShell module?  1. Use the –Function and –Alias parameters, and use wildcard characters to control the import (ipmo is an alias for Import-Alias): ipmo pscx -Function * -Alias *   2. Use the Get-Command cmdlet to […]<\/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-3282","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":"

Summary: Use parameters of Import-Module to control what you import from a Windows PowerShell module.  How can I import only custom aliases and functions from a Windows PowerShell module?  1. Use the –Function and –Alias parameters, and use wildcard characters to control the import (ipmo is an alias for Import-Alias): ipmo pscx -Function * -Alias *   2. Use the Get-Command cmdlet to […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282","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=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/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=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}