{"id":74131,"date":"2015-08-06T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/08\/06\/powertip-find-alias-for-powershell-cmdlet\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:46:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:46:42","slug":"powertip-find-alias-for-powershell-cmdlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-alias-for-powershell-cmdlet\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find Alias for PowerShell Cmdlet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Learn how to find an alias for a specific Windows PowerShell cmdlet.<\/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 find is there is an alias for a specific Windows PowerShell cmdlet that I use a lot?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><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, specify the&nbsp;<b>&ndash;Definition<\/b>&nbsp;parameter, and supply the name of the cmdlet, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Get-Alias -Definition Get-CimClass<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to find an alias for a specific Windows PowerShell cmdlet. &nbsp;How can I find is there is an alias for a specific Windows PowerShell cmdlet that I use a lot? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Alias&nbsp;cmdlet, specify the&nbsp;&ndash;Definition&nbsp;parameter, and supply the name of the cmdlet, for example: Get-Alias -Definition Get-CimClass<\/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":[51,356,3,45],"class_list":["post-74131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-getting-started","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to find an alias for a specific Windows PowerShell cmdlet. &nbsp;How can I find is there is an alias for a specific Windows PowerShell cmdlet that I use a lot? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Alias&nbsp;cmdlet, specify the&nbsp;&ndash;Definition&nbsp;parameter, and supply the name of the cmdlet, for example: Get-Alias -Definition Get-CimClass<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74131","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=74131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74131\/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=74131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}