{"id":3289,"date":"2013-07-02T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/07\/02\/powertip-customize-powershell-cmdlet-names-to-avoid-conflict\/"},"modified":"2013-07-02T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-customize-powershell-cmdlet-names-to-avoid-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-customize-powershell-cmdlet-names-to-avoid-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Customize PowerShell Cmdlet Names to Avoid Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">Summary<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">: Customize Windows PowerShell cmdlet names that you import from a module to avoid naming conflicts.<\/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 easily distinguish a cmdlet that has the same name as cmdlets in other 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;When you import the module, use the&nbsp;<strong>&ndash;Prefix<\/strong>&nbsp;parameter, and supply custom prefix (<strong>ipmo<\/strong>&nbsp;is an alias for&nbsp;<strong>ImportModule<\/strong>):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">ipmo -Prefix mred -Name pscx<\/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: Customize Windows PowerShell cmdlet names that you import from a module to avoid naming conflicts. &nbsp;How can I easily distinguish a cmdlet that has the same name as cmdlets in other modules? &nbsp;When you import the module, use the&nbsp;&ndash;Prefix&nbsp;parameter, and supply custom prefix (ipmo&nbsp;is an alias for&nbsp;ImportModule): ipmo -Prefix mred -Name pscx<\/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-3289","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: Customize Windows PowerShell cmdlet names that you import from a module to avoid naming conflicts. &nbsp;How can I easily distinguish a cmdlet that has the same name as cmdlets in other modules? &nbsp;When you import the module, use the&nbsp;&ndash;Prefix&nbsp;parameter, and supply custom prefix (ipmo&nbsp;is an alias for&nbsp;ImportModule): ipmo -Prefix mred -Name pscx<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289","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=3289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/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=3289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}