In the Last Post, I wrote a little about Aliases in PowerShell. So What about creating an Alias.
Yes we have the option for creating New Alias in PowerShell.And the cmldlet used for Creating aliases in PowerShell is New-Alias.
So, As Usuall, We Can Go For Get-Help on New-Alias cmdlet.
Let's look at the Syntax.So, As Usuall, We Can Go For Get-Help on New-Alias cmdlet.
PS C:\> Get-Help New-Alias
NAME
New-Alias
SYNOPSIS
Creates a new alias.
SYNTAX
New-Alias [-Name] <String> [-Value] <String> [-Description [<String>]] [-Force] [-InformationAction {SilentlyContinue | Stop | Continue | Inquire | Ignore | Suspend}]
[-InformationVariable [<System.String>]] [-Option {None | ReadOnly | Constant | Private | AllScope | Unspecified}] [-PassThru] [-Scope [<String>]] [-Confirm] [-WhatIf]
[<CommonParameters>]
DESCRIPTION
The New-Alias cmdlet creates a new alias in the current Windows PowerShell session. Aliases created by using New-Alias are not saved after you exit the session or
close Windows PowerShell. You can use the Export-Alias cmdlet to save your alias information to a file. You can later use Import-Alias to retrieve that saved alias
information.
SYNTAX
New-Alias [-Name] <String> [-Value] <String> [-Description [<String>]] [-Force] [-InformationAction {SilentlyContinue | Stop | Continue | Inquire | Ignore | Suspend}]
[-InformationVariable [<System.String>]] [-Option {None | ReadOnly | Constant | Private | AllScope | Unspecified}] [-PassThru] [-Scope [<String>]] [-Confirm] [-WhatIf]
[<CommonParameters>]With the help of this Syntax, Lets create an Alias for a cmdlet. Say Test-Connection.
Test-Connection cmdlet is used to Test connectivity to one or more remote computers.
PS C:\> New-Alias -Name TC -Value Test-Connection -Description 'Alias For Test-Connection cmdlet'
Here,
-Name:- Name of the cmdlet for which we have to create the Alias.
-Value:- Name of the alias for the cmdlet which we are creating alias.
-Description:- Description For the New alias of the cmdlet.
Lets check,
PS C:\> Get-Alias -Definition Test-Connection CommandType Name Version Source ----------- ---- ------- ------ Alias TC -> Test-Connection
Note: Since we Didn't mentioned Version and source info, Those are blank.
Lets Test The Connectivity to Loopback Adapter.
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Test-Connection 127.0.0.1 Source Destination IPV4Address IPV6Address Bytes Time(ms) ------ ----------- ----------- ----------- ----- -------- D-113037147 127.0.0.1 192.168.106.1 fe80::bc73:cd7e:5078:531b%15 32 0 D-113037147 127.0.0.1 192.168.106.1 fe80::bc73:cd7e:5078:531b%15 32 0 D-113037147 127.0.0.1 192.168.106.1 fe80::bc73:cd7e:5078:531b%15 32 0 D-113037147 127.0.0.1 192.168.106.1 fe80::bc73:cd7e:5078:531b%15 32 0
Using Alias,
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> TC 127.0.0.1 Source Destination IPV4Address IPV6Address Bytes Time(ms) ------ ----------- ----------- ----------- ----- -------- D-113037147 127.0.0.1 192.168.106.1 fe80::bc73:cd7e:5078:531b%15 32 0 D-113037147 127.0.0.1 192.168.106.1 fe80::bc73:cd7e:5078:531b%15 32 0 D-113037147 127.0.0.1 192.168.106.1 fe80::bc73:cd7e:5078:531b%15 32 0 D-113037147 127.0.0.1 192.168.106.1 fe80::bc73:cd7e:5078:531b%15 32 0
We Have succesfully created an Alias for Test-connection cmdlet.
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-Alias -name TC|Select-Object Name,Definition,description Name Definition Description ---- ---------- ----------- TC Test-Connection Alias For Test-Connection cmdlet
