{"id":4397,"date":"2012-12-29T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/12\/29\/powertip-find-which-powershell-cmdlets-have-most-aliases\/"},"modified":"2012-12-29T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-which-powershell-cmdlets-have-most-aliases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-which-powershell-cmdlets-have-most-aliases\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find Which PowerShell Cmdlets Have Most Aliases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong>&nbsp;Find out which Windows PowerShell cmdlets have the most defined 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 determine which Windows PowerShell cmdlets have the most aliases?<\/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;Use the&nbsp;<strong>Get-Alias<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet and group by the definition. Sort the count in a descending manner, and select the top 10 items. The following command accomplishes this task where&nbsp;<strong>gal<\/strong>&nbsp;is an alias for&nbsp;<strong>Get-Alias<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>group<\/strong>&nbsp;is an alias for&nbsp;<strong>Group-Object<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>sort<\/strong>&nbsp;is an alias for&nbsp;<strong>Sort-Object<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>select<\/strong>&nbsp;is an alias for&nbsp;<strong>Select-Object<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">gal | group definition | sort count -Descending | select -First 10<\/p>\n<p>&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;Find out which Windows PowerShell cmdlets have the most defined aliases. &nbsp;How can I determine which Windows PowerShell cmdlets have the most aliases? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Alias&nbsp;cmdlet and group by the definition. Sort the count in a descending manner, and select the top 10 items. The following command accomplishes this task where&nbsp;gal&nbsp;is an alias for&nbsp;Get-Alias,&nbsp;group&nbsp;is an alias [&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-4397","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;Find out which Windows PowerShell cmdlets have the most defined aliases. &nbsp;How can I determine which Windows PowerShell cmdlets have the most aliases? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Alias&nbsp;cmdlet and group by the definition. Sort the count in a descending manner, and select the top 10 items. The following command accomplishes this task where&nbsp;gal&nbsp;is an alias for&nbsp;Get-Alias,&nbsp;group&nbsp;is an alias [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397","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=4397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397\/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=4397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}