{"id":5025,"date":"2012-09-04T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/09\/04\/powertip-find-the-length-of-powershell-aliases\/"},"modified":"2012-09-04T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-the-length-of-powershell-aliases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-the-length-of-powershell-aliases\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find the Length of PowerShell Aliases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: See how to determine the distribution of Windows PowerShell cmdlet aliases by length.<\/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 many Windows PowerShell aliases are 1-letter or 2-letters or 3-letters in length? In fact, how do you determine what the entire distribution of cmdlet alias lengths is?<\/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;<b>Get-Alias<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet to retrieve all of the aliases. Then pipe the aliases to the&nbsp;<b>Foreach-Object<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet and convert them to strings and retrieve the&nbsp;<b>length<\/b>&nbsp;property. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;After you have done that, pipe the results to the&nbsp;<b>Group<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet and sort by the&nbsp;<b>name<\/b>&nbsp;property (which will be the actual length of the alias.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">Get-Alias | % {$_.tostring().length} | group -NoElement | sort name -Descending<\/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 determine the distribution of Windows PowerShell cmdlet aliases by length. &nbsp;How many Windows PowerShell aliases are 1-letter or 2-letters or 3-letters in length? In fact, how do you determine what the entire distribution of cmdlet alias lengths is? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Alias&nbsp;cmdlet to retrieve all of the aliases. Then pipe the aliases to [&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-5025","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 determine the distribution of Windows PowerShell cmdlet aliases by length. &nbsp;How many Windows PowerShell aliases are 1-letter or 2-letters or 3-letters in length? In fact, how do you determine what the entire distribution of cmdlet alias lengths is? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Alias&nbsp;cmdlet to retrieve all of the aliases. Then pipe the aliases to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025","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=5025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/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=5025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}