{"id":76902,"date":"2016-02-09T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T00:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/?p=76902"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:19:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:19:56","slug":"powertip-use-get-command-to-resolve-powershell-alias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-get-command-to-resolve-powershell-alias\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use Get-Command to resolve PowerShell alias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Learn how to use the <strong>Get-Command<\/strong> cmdlet to resolve an alias to a Windows PowerShell command.<\/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\" \/>\u00a0How can I find if a Windows PowerShell command is an alias?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-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\" \/>\u00a0Use the <strong>Get-Command<\/strong> cmdlet, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">gcm gwmi<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><strong>Note<\/strong>:\u00a0<strong>gcm<\/strong> is an alias for <strong>Get-Command<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-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 use the Get-Command cmdlet to resolve an alias to a Windows PowerShell command. \u00a0How can I find if a Windows PowerShell command is an alias? \u00a0Use the Get-Command cmdlet, for example: gcm gwmi Note:\u00a0gcm is an alias for Get-Command.<\/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":[568],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-76902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hey-scripting-guy","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to use the Get-Command cmdlet to resolve an alias to a Windows PowerShell command. \u00a0How can I find if a Windows PowerShell command is an alias? \u00a0Use the Get-Command cmdlet, for example: gcm gwmi Note:\u00a0gcm is an alias for Get-Command.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76902","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=76902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76902\/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=76902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}