{"id":4752,"date":"2012-10-29T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/10\/29\/powertip-find-powershell-aliases-for-cmdlets-from-a-specific-module\/"},"modified":"2012-10-29T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-powershell-aliases-for-cmdlets-from-a-specific-module","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-powershell-aliases-for-cmdlets-from-a-specific-module\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find PowerShell Aliases for Cmdlets from a Specific Module"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: See how to find all Windows PowerShell aliases for cmdlets and functions exposed by a specific module.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;<\/strong>How can I find all of the aliases defined for commands (functions or cmdlets) in a specific module?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;Use the <b>Get-Command<\/b> cmdlet (<strong>gcm<\/strong> is alias) to return all the commands from the module, and then use the <b>Get-Alias<\/b> cmdlet (<strong>gal<\/strong> is alias) to look for aliases with a definition of the command&nbsp;name.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">gcm -Module *utility* | % {gal -Definition $_.name -ea 0}<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><strong>Note <\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>*utility*<\/b>&nbsp;is a wildcard pattern for the Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility module.<\/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\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: See how to find all Windows PowerShell aliases for cmdlets and functions exposed by a specific module. &nbsp;How can I find all of the aliases defined for commands (functions or cmdlets) in a specific module? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Use the Get-Command cmdlet (gcm is alias) to return all the commands from the module, and [&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-4752","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: See how to find all Windows PowerShell aliases for cmdlets and functions exposed by a specific module. &nbsp;How can I find all of the aliases defined for commands (functions or cmdlets) in a specific module? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Use the Get-Command cmdlet (gcm is alias) to return all the commands from the module, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752","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=4752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752\/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=4752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}