{"id":4151,"date":"2013-02-17T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/02\/17\/powertip-find-your-personal-powershell-aliases\/"},"modified":"2013-02-17T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-your-personal-powershell-aliases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-your-personal-powershell-aliases\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find Your Personal PowerShell Aliases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">Summary:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">&nbsp;Learn how to find your personally created Windows PowerShell aliases.<\/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;I need a way to identify personally created Windows PowerShell aliases. How can I easily do this?<\/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 creating a custom alias, specify the&nbsp;<strong>Description<\/strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em>property. You can then search for aliases that use that description, as shown here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">New-Alias -Name dog -Value get-content -Description &#8216;mred alias&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">Get-Alias | ? description -match &#8216;mred&#8217;<\/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;Learn how to find your personally created Windows PowerShell aliases. &nbsp;I need a way to identify personally created Windows PowerShell aliases. How can I easily do this? &nbsp;When creating a custom alias, specify the&nbsp;Description&nbsp;property. You can then search for aliases that use that description, as shown here. New-Alias -Name dog -Value get-content -Description &#8216;mred alias&#8217; [&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-4151","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;Learn how to find your personally created Windows PowerShell aliases. &nbsp;I need a way to identify personally created Windows PowerShell aliases. How can I easily do this? &nbsp;When creating a custom alias, specify the&nbsp;Description&nbsp;property. You can then search for aliases that use that description, as shown here. New-Alias -Name dog -Value get-content -Description &#8216;mred alias&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151","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=4151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/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=4151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}